Posted on 07/19/2024 3:07:19 PM PDT by fwdude
A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana.
Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy made the appeal to parents Thursday as her agency released the final report on the March 22, 2022 collision between a tiny Chevrolet Spark hatchback and a gravel-hauling semi in the small town of Tishomingo.
The board, after an investigation by its staff, determined that the crash was caused by the 16-year-old driver slowing for an intersection, then accelerating through a stop sign because she likely was impaired by recent marijuana use and was distracted by having five teen passengers in the car, the NTSB report said.
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That car was overloaded illegally. Not even enough seatbelts
Looks like the dead teens were at fault so not a big tragedy the way i see it.
Teens are crazy drivers and the driving age should be 20.
Oh, talk to a few potheads. They’ll extol the BENEFITS of the stuff until the Second Coming.
Was a couple car lengths behind someone on the highway, could smell their chronic from there.
Went to pass them, they sped up.
All while blowing smoke out the window.
Mobile cloud of stink.
Finally scraped them off on a semi to get away from them.
But people like the banned Just Say No to Nannies insisted that partakers of chronic don’t drive on the highway.
They were likely on edibles. They are a whole different ballgame.
-SB
I imagine the distortion of temporal judgement would be the most dangerous aspect as it relates to driving.
Seriously, people didn’t see this coming?
Driving quality....
The Hangover.
“Let me drive. Hey, I drive really great when I’m drinking.”
“Yeah, that’s why we always name you as our designated drunk driver.”
One of the laugh out loud lines for me.
I was in a room where several people were bonging as they called. I got a weird, passing out feeling. All I could think of was to shower with cold water. I stood there a few minutes or less, then I would go lay on my bed dripping wet and sleep some, wake up and shower again, several times just hoping I would get thru it. I did not like it. That’s my experience. Never again! I quit smoking cigarettes at age 50 but said I would start again if I made it to 80. I’m 84 now. Don’t want now.
Aren’t they getting enough pay-off from the cartels?
And the voting age 35.
I find driving to be nerve wracking, so I like to take the edge off with a dozen or so shots of tequila. Also, since I'm afraid of other cars, I like to drive on the sidewalks.
A 17 year old with a medical marijuana prescription recently killed 6 members of a family from India in a head-on crash in Texas. Was released the next morning.
Was quite startling to discover, yes.
And even worse, they often try to cover it with patchouli.
Which fails horribly.
“ Driving under the influence of anything that affects your driving is not wise. That being said, marijuana is no worse, or better, than alcohol. Some can handle it and some cannot. Hopefully people can figure that out before they hurt themselves or others.”
The physiological effects of marijuana are totally different than alcohol on the body. One of my doc friends is a retired neurosurgeon. He said that pot actually does damage to the brain in habitual users, he said that alcohol damages the brain but in different ways. One of the big things that they see with cannabis is early onset of dementia.
I’d be real curious what their (non-stoned) passengers have to say about that.
The one thing That seems obvious that marijuana definitely does is cause people to worship it. It, like any god, can do no wrong.
Never heard that. Lord knows it’s a miracle for all the years I was drunk behind the wheel I didn’t kill somebody.
No drug or alcohol is going to improve anyone’s driving.
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