# Three teens dead, two more critically injured. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-teens-dead-two-more-critically-injured/250889 "2004-06-17T16:47:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-teens-dead-two-more-critically-injured/250889/21 "2004-06-19T01:05:45Z")
The driver, who has survived, may face [Criminal Charges](http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2004/06/18/vwmemori.htm). My wife, who hears things from fellow teachers whose spouses are cops in a small town, says that the boy was doing about 100 mph. He is still hospitalized. There have been death threats phoned in to the hospital against this young man. There are guards outside of his room. No good will come of this.20 years ago it’d have been a tragic wreck, now he faces vehicular manslaughter. 3 counts. 25- life if convicted. What good this will do completely escapes me. Does this bring back the victims? It does not. My wife is attending a double funeral tomorrow; two best friends died in the same instant and will be buried next to each other. The families will plant trees and set a stone bench aside the burial plots, so people can sit by the graves. I personally hope that the young man is not prosecuted for anything. HIS best friend died as well. He will live with the mental anguish of this for the rest of his life. Incarceration will do nothing to ameliorate the familial losses. Awful. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-teens-dead-two-more-critically-injured/250889/22 "2004-06-19T01:12:40Z")
Unfortunately, we just had an accident in Charlotte- both teens dead- flipped their truck in rush hour traffic, both ejected. Why people don’t wear seatbelts is beyond me. So sad and pointless. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-teens-dead-two-more-critically-injured/250889/23 "2004-06-19T01:25:23Z")
> [@Beauty Personified](#): > > There’s always the good possibility of being thrown from a vehicle and then being crushed by the vehicle as it rolls. Or simply flying helplessly thru the air at 50, 60, 70 mph… ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-teens-dead-two-more-critically-injured/250889/24 "2004-06-19T03:33:07Z")
> [@](#): > > **if6was9** said: > The point that everyone is missing is that if someone under 18 is driving… there should be NO other minors in the car! Period! If a teen wants to drive, let him or her do it with a parent in the passenger seat. No exceptions! CHILDREN, together, are not thinking clearly. I think this goes too far. I was driving without a parent at sixteen because it meant that I could actually get to my part time after-school job, and on many occasions I would also take my 14 year-old sister with me! If you really want your idea to fly, why not just deny everyone under the age of 18 a driver’s license? Because if a parent’s got to be there anyway, it’s no aid to the family to have the kid drive to work himself/herself is it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-teens-dead-two-more-critically-injured/250889.md?page=1)