Posted on 03/18/2018 2:23:02 PM PDT by Kartographer
Valentina D’Alessandro was at a party with a few girlfriends in 2013 when one of them got sick. They accepted another teenager’s offer to drive them home in his red Mustang.
In a commercial area of Wilmington, at the intersection of two four-lane boulevards, a car pulled up alongside the Mustang.
The race began.
Minutes later, Valentina, 16, was dead, her body wedged in a back seat window following a crash. Police found her high school identification card at the scene.
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Fully automatic transmissions, you say? Why is this legal?
You don’t need a Mustang to hunt deer, especially a black assault Mustang. Ban them!
“I once beat a guy who had a short nascar career years later”
Big difference between NASCAR and
dragracing. But I get your point.
I always made my passengers exit
the car BEFORE the race was on.
We never street raced except on
deserted straight stretches of
road, outside of city limits.
Still stupid, but no one was
ever hurt or killed.
I’m not sure you get his point.
I understood, I was just reinforcing.
NASCAR has these young people’s blood on their hands!
I wouldn’t say NASCAR, but maybe Ford
Mustangs. How dare they put over 300+
horsepower in teenager’s hands...s/
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