I respectfully disagree. This is no more an 'Accident' than handing a loaded, cocked weapon to an initiated, unaware juvenile - And we are all too familiar with the potentially lethal outcome of that idiocy.
The father was skirting a logical law, one made to ensure that anyone getting behind the wheel of a potentially lethal machine, posses the requisite knowledge about it operation and control. IMO he is guilty of manslaughter and the juvenile is innocent in her reliance on her father that this was a safe way to learn to drive.
In Maryland and I suspect many other states, obtaining a learner's permit involves no training whatsoever about operation or control of a vehicle. It consists of a very long wait in the DMV paper processing area and a very short, multiple choice test on traffic law trivia.
The notion that having jumped through the requisite government paperwork hoops would have somehow made this 15 yr old, first time driver competent to drive and thus prevented this accident is not logical.
One family is already ruined here. The knee jerk reaction that since someone died then by god we have to punish someone is only going to succeed in ruining another.
How so? Lectures, rules, and videos are not the same as the actual experience. Most of the training in driver's education is rules of the road and this incident was in a parking lot. Very little is actually about handling the car. That's why they have learner's permits, so they can get the experience of driving before they take the test and go out on the road by themselves. Had the father let her drive by herself, then I could see your contrast.