[MrB]

Ban “the peers” and “the pack” from your kid’s car,
and he’ll be more likely to survive.

[AnAmericanMother]

Yeah, banning "the peers" and "the pack" -- without a GPS locator and a shock collar riveted onto the kid, or keeping him out of school and under personal supervision 24/7 -- is going to work about as well as that fool legislator saying that we just have to tell people not to do bad things.

I did instruct my kids that they were not to carry more than one passenger. I think there is (IIRC) a Georgia law to the same effect for 16-17 year olds.

But this could well be a case of a bunch of boys thinking it was cool to disobey parents, sneak out after curfew, and go joyriding with a wild girl. Sort of case I would clip out of the newspaper and hand to my kids with the observation that things don't always work out the way you intend . . . .

Fortunately, my kids never got anything worse than a traffic ticket and a stern talking-to by the judge. But I do not tell them about some of my escapades . . . which fortunately never resulted in any injuries or damage to persons or property. But that was just good luck (and I was not a particularly wild kid).