But would it make that big a difference. You can say that him getting in the car only made the car crash into the tree slightly more to the left or right.
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Dad forces son to skip beach trip w/ friends. All beach-bound friends die in crash.
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But would it make that big a difference. You can say that him getting in the car only made the car crash into the tree slightly more to the left or right.
Two of the remains were unrecognizable except for fingerprints, so I think it was probably a quick death to say the least. RIP. Tragic.
Not necessarily. Coroner/police could have collected fingerprints from their home or something to compare.
The crash wasn't a random occurrence. The driver caused it. No other vehicle was involved.
It's very likely that it would have still happened.
Unknown Soldier
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This is some serious Final Destination in real life.
RustyNails
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Sure. Infinity going 0-60 in 5 seconds would have gone 0-60 in 4.9 seconds.
CornBurrito
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How exactly does one crash into a tree like that? Nobody else was harmed (unless I missed that in the OP) which is pretty amazing unless they were like the only car on the road.
Reneledarker
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Reminds me of a story my aunt told me that her girl wanted to go to a party, but my aunt did not let her, two days later my cousin hears that the girls were drugged and rapped.
100 mph, get distracted BOOM.
Valkyr Junkie
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100 mph into a tree. That's gotta be like flipping a switch off.
For all we know, the kid would have been the smart one out of the group and told the driver to slow down.
God my mom is going to use this against me whenever she doesn't want me out.
And they're Arab too, fuck.
Really upset about this though, no one deserves to die like that so young. A shame that the driver wasn't as disciplined as the friend who missed out. I've gotten rides from guys who think its funny and even impressive to drive so reckless and it only makes me not get in their car ever again.
And they're Arab too, fuck.
Really upset about this though, no one deserves to die like that so young. A shame that the driver wasn't as disciplined as the friend who missed out. I've gotten rides from guys who think its funny and even impressive to drive so reckless and it only makes me not get in their car ever again.
RustyNails
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He was supposedly speeding 100 mph+. The police are saying he lost control and slammed through a tree. Also I found this:
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
good parenting by having his son stay home to study ending up saving his son's life. He is lucky to have a good father.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
They would have been completely obliterated.
I have to stop reading these kind of stories - this and that elevator thing yesterday are kind of subconsciously haunting and disturbing, beyond the initial horror factor. Not a good way to start the day.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Jesus.
Lucky kid. Shame about what happened to his friends.
First thing I thought of.
And it's equally as likely that he would have said "LOL GO FASTER!".
There is a greater chance of him encouraging the reckless behavior or not speaking out against it or speaking out against it to no effect than there is of him preventing the crash.
The driver deliberately drove like a moron because that's what he liked doing. He killed himself and 4 other people because of his shitty decisions, not because of some butterfly effect bullshit.
Isn't there some limitation on teenage drivers getting behind the wheel with so many passengers in the same age? After a certain point there has to be someone that is 21 years old if I remember correctly. It is a tragedy that this happened, but going 100 mph wasn't gonna impress anyone and should not have been teased with so many lives in your hand. Good thing at least one life was spared.
Edit: Just saw he didn't even have a permit. Wow. Who are the parents that let their kids go off alone like that under those conditions?
Edit: Just saw he didn't even have a permit. Wow. Who are the parents that let their kids go off alone like that under those conditions?
Could the driver's parents be sued? They had to know he was driving the car without a license.
The point is that the driver was a dangerous driver (allegedly), and the kid wouldn't have been safe riding with him either way.
Yes, they could've avoided that specific crash. Maybe they would have been lucky enough to make it home. Maybe they would've crashed into the wall next to that tree at 120mph. Point is, he wouldn't have been safe with that driver.
RIP to the kids that died, it's a tragedy.
From the words of the survivor himself:
Yeah, this sounds like it was an accident waiting to happen, and it's really sad that no one else stepped in before it was too late.
Meh. I drove a 740i, I just wasn't reckless.
RustyNails
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What? no please.
every state has its own rules
It's also illegal to drive without a license. So I don't think that bit matters much now.
TheAbsolution
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That's tragic. Damn. RIP to those teenagers. I can guarantee that kid feels guilty.
Damn, look at the way the car ended up. Those teens were possibly split into pieces too....
I feel bad for the passengers but can't say the same for the driver. Do they check if the driver was drink driving for accidents like this?
Valkyr Junkie
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Oh don't you worry about that, there's gonna be lawsuits out the ass on this. A few years ago we had a similar incident here in Jacksonville. A group of teens (the driver did not have a license I recall) skipped school to go to the beach and everyone in the SUV died when the driver wrecked. I need to lookup what the end result on that was. There were lawsuits against and from just about all parties.
Yes. Count on it.
Rentahamster
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That's a shitty way to go.
I don't know anything about the car they were driving, but is it a kind of car that is able to be reliably driven at those speeds?
I don't know anything about the car they were driving, but is it a kind of car that is able to be reliably driven at those speeds?
MisterAnderson
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That's crazy. Lucky kid to not have gone.
It could be argued that the by him going it would have averted the wreck though. It doesn't take much to change history.
It could be argued that the by him going it would have averted the wreck though. It doesn't take much to change history.
Glitchfire
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Imagine if he had gone with them, would they still have wrecked? Could him being in the car have changed the dynamics of the social interaction between the people in the car, changing the time that the driver got distracted at? Would this kid have altered just one of the set of extremely random and unlucky circumstances that led the driver to run into the tree?
Jesus Christ, there's a traffic light sign in the background. I assumed they must have been on a highway, but this kid was doing 100 mph going on a road with traffic lights?
Also, WTF @ the kid not having a license or permit. Stupid and tragic.
The parents of the other teens that died.
Rubbish King
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Wow that sucks, impossible to say that he saved his life, like the butterfly effect, there is no possible way you could know if they would've crashed if he had got in the car
youngwerther
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Whenever I hear stories like this I always think of the countless times my friends and I as teenagers did incredibly reckless things with motor vehicles and how many times over I could (and should) be dead.
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