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11-23-2006, 11:45 AM
If it's not stupid for an 18 year old to be driving a Porsche in the first place, then for her to be driving it in excess of 100mph, then I don't know what is.
I'm sorry Mike, but this story is the definition of stupidity. Having lost a kid I know the pain of the parents and really feel for them. It's doubly painful to see this story plastered across every auto discussion forum I've visited. The truth is that a teenager is not equiped with skills to drive a Porsche at speed. We are lucky that she didn't kill anyone else on her way out. That would have been a bigger crime.
I repeat my comment - a sad story, but it's evolution. She IS dead and was a stupid girl who at 18 years old and should have known better. Powerful cars driven at high speed with immature driving skills kill - it really is that simple. Every member of this forum knows that as well as I do - ask the insurance industry and the stage legislatures that are tightening up teenage driving rules.
I have researched this story from several outlets and each one said that she took her father's car without consent. There are conflicting accounts as to whether it was after an argument (and other factors). If you know someone in Orange County that has first hand knowledge of this story, then I'd love to hear it, but many accounts of this story state she took the car without consent. There are also reports that her father and a neighbor called 911 after she pulled out of the neighborhood at around 60mph.
The speed she was driving is indisputable - you don't get that mangled with your car (and body destroyed), facing the wrong direction on the otherside of a highway by driving 55mph. The damage to the car and the reinforced concrete toll booth was pretty impressive.
I'm sorry Mike, but this story is the definition of stupidity. Having lost a kid I know the pain of the parents and really feel for them. It's doubly painful to see this story plastered across every auto discussion forum I've visited. The truth is that a teenager is not equiped with skills to drive a Porsche at speed. We are lucky that she didn't kill anyone else on her way out. That would have been a bigger crime.
I repeat my comment - a sad story, but it's evolution. She IS dead and was a stupid girl who at 18 years old and should have known better. Powerful cars driven at high speed with immature driving skills kill - it really is that simple. Every member of this forum knows that as well as I do - ask the insurance industry and the stage legislatures that are tightening up teenage driving rules.
I have researched this story from several outlets and each one said that she took her father's car without consent. There are conflicting accounts as to whether it was after an argument (and other factors). If you know someone in Orange County that has first hand knowledge of this story, then I'd love to hear it, but many accounts of this story state she took the car without consent. There are also reports that her father and a neighbor called 911 after she pulled out of the neighborhood at around 60mph.
The speed she was driving is indisputable - you don't get that mangled with your car (and body destroyed), facing the wrong direction on the otherside of a highway by driving 55mph. The damage to the car and the reinforced concrete toll booth was pretty impressive.