Please, please teach your kids well..

[aeromed202]

From the headlines today. I could barely stop the tears.


Early today, six died in a head-on crash in Cambridge, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
The lone survivor, a 16-year-old girl from Isanti who was driving and received her license three weeks ago, was airlifted from the scene and is in serious condition at Hennepin County Medical Center, said State Patrol spokesman Lt. Eric Roeske.
The victims include four passengers who were in the girl's 1998 Pontiac Grand Am — a 21-year-old Cambridge man, who was in the front seat, and a 17-year-old Pine City boy, a 16-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old girl.
A 24-year-old Sandstone man who was driving the other car — a 2000 Oldsmobile Bravada — and his male passenger were also killed in the crash, which occurred about 2:40 a.m. along Minnesota Highway 95 near County Road 70, he said.
Jimmy Gordon, who owns Jimmy's Pizza in Isanti, visited the crash site today. He said the driver is Sabrina Schumacher, who worked at his shop making pizzas and answering phones.
"She was always responsible," Gordon said. "She did a good job."
Gordon said one victim was Schumacher's boyfriend, Travis Buchan, 17.
A family friend of Buchan's, Katie Swanson, 18, said Buchan was a senior at Cambridge-Isanti high school, and that he and Schumacher had been going out for about a month. She said the 16-year-old boy who died was Tres Kendryna, of
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The State Patrol has not released names of victims.
Roeske said, "We don't believe anybody in the Grand Am was wearing a seat belt."
Authorities detected an odor of alcohol coming from the Grand Am, he said.
State law prohibits new drivers from driving between midnight and 5 a.m. and from having more than one passenger under age 20 in the car, Roeske said.
The Oldsmobile caught fire after the impact, so trying to identify the passenger has been complicated, he said.
It's too early to say which driver was at fault because the impact took place in the center of the road, he said. The crash comes less than two days after three girls were killed and another was injured in a rollover accident in southeastern Minnesota.

 

[txnetcop]

This is so sad. My two youngest are coming up on driving age. I hope I have taught them well! It's so easy to do the wrong thing when you are a kid with your friends and so costly when you make a mistake.
Ted
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[Lionheart]

Sorry to hear this. Horrible.

You think of how their lives have been robbed now of the possibilities of what all they might have become.

Children are young, they are only learning. Its horrible when things like this happens.

You know, this could also been caused by mechanical failure and the like. A front tire blowout sent my friends spinning in traffic once. They all lived, thank the Lord. But at 75 MPH at 2:30 AM on a super cold highway with on coming traffic, that might be a different story.


Bill

 

[TARPSBird]

Jimmy Gordon, who owns Jimmy's Pizza in Isanti, visited the crash site today. He said the driver is Sabrina Schumacher, who worked at his shop making pizzas and answering phones. "She was always responsible," Gordon said. "She did a good job."

Responsible until she gets together with her friends and the old peer pressure thing kicks in. They get some alcohol (maybe courtesy of the 21-year-old passenger) and go cruisin' and drinkin'. Teen-agers think they're indestructible, too bad it's not true. Do they still show those graphic highway safety films in high schools?

 

[Piglet]

Quite sad, the lapse of common sense in the young.
And we can do without the ad in the middle of a post.

 

[hey_moe]

What a terrible thing to read about. I am sorry for the family for that kind of senseless loss. My own daughter could never understand why I wanted her home at nine on week nights and ten on weekends. I wonder why the children were out at 2:30 in the morning at that age.

 

[jmig]

This is so sad. My two youngest are coming up on driving age. I hope I have taught them well! It's so easy to do the wrong thing when you are a kid with your friends and so costly when you make a mistake.
Ted
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You still worry every time they are out with friends.

 

[Bjoern]

Schumacher

Bites tongue...hard...

Quite sad, the lapse of common sense in the young.

Those are the mistakes you only do once in your life - regardless of age.



Not too long ago, four of six young people died somewhere in the country because they overcrowded the car (and thus didn't wear seat belts), were drunk and went way too fast.
Hard to find sympathy in that except for the innocent ones.

 

[aeromed202]

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