Tragic end

Yep,

Read that this morning, tragic for all involved but.......................

to quote from your "sharing the road" thread and sorry to be so blunt ..................


"Unfortunately you can’t counter stupidity despite the best efforts of the road safety authorities and manufactures."

One has to ask the question:

Do you know where your 16 year old kid is at 3:00am, who has a history of joyriding, while you are holidaying in Sydney?

Having read the story she had a history of car theft, skipping school, being with the wrong type of friends etc, and even her parents were worried about tragic consequences eventuating.

Yes the parents tried to get her help but there's no sympathy from me and I'm just thankful no innocent people were caught up in the accident.

I will not comment on this incident or the parents of the girls, unless I think I have a solution or answer to this.

I posted so parents and grandparents maybe able to avert a tragedy in their and their children's lives.

I know only to well how strong headed and uncontrollable a teenager can be. Sometimes you don't know if you will see them alive when you wake up in the morning.

My oldest has survived the ruination of Methamphetamine and depression. Those scars will stay with him for the rest of his life.

I would just like to find a solution for what is plainly happening to young ones. It has always happened even when we were all young but know it is becoming a common occurrence.

For those who have no sympathy. I hope your god looks after you, because one day you may face something similar.

Always remember when children are born they can be completely different. One good and one not so good.

RA.

My younger daughter is 19 and has experienced 3 of her schoolmates/friends killed in vehicle accidents.

She and her boyfriend unwittingly came across the aftermath of her boyfriend's best mate killed in a motorbike accident around the corner from our home. She recognises this bike rider was a young man with a lot of risk-taking behaviours. We were even talking last night that it was only a matter of time before something terrible happened and he has changed the lives of those involved in the accident and his friends.

Very sad all round, the only benefit is that she is a very cautious driver.

I've been to a lot of accidents and they are always sorry after they kill a mate.
Just how you get it thru to a driver that driving someone around is a great responsibility.
It takes a lot of work to get a baby to a teenager, only to loose that person from one stupid act.

I don't know how many have seen this Graphic VicTAC advertisement.. The video is really well made but very graphic.

My son reposted it again on Facebook today to keep the subject in people's minds.

When I was 17 to 20 I was an idiot on the roads. It was only the monetary cost of Police, Courts and Solicitors that slowed me down.

When my son was about 18 he went through the same thing.

We were both really lucky that we didn't kill ourselves, or anyone else.

The thing is we are not isolated cases. I reckon there's a large percentage of people go through that stage, some don't grow out of it and some don't survive it.

So many people are constantly putting in a 100% effort to prevent young people harming themselves and their friends in vehicular accidents. It happens all the time but at a reducing rate.

Steve.

Hi all
Just wanted to put in my two bobs worth. I have two daughters who were bought up with the morals and discipline, respect for themselves and others etc. The youngest one was the perfect child, always helpful, well behaved and studious etc until she hit puberty. She had turned into this horrible person we never knew existed. Becoming rebellious she followed her older sister into the world of drugs. Now the older one was sneaky about the habit. So sneaky infact I never found out until the younger one started using. The younger one became stronger in will and was straight out with it by saying, "yeah, I'm doing drugs and what are you going to do about it" much to my horror. So we set about to change that situation and thanking God both girls came of their drugs after 8 years of heart renching, worrying, fighting, communication, late nights, interupted nights etc you get the picture. Anyway they are clean now and have been clean for 3 years. My point is that no matter how you bring them up when drugs enters the arena they become someone else. They become very selfish, very secretive and sometimes very aggresive. When my youngest told me of the things she did when she was on drugs I could not understand why she would even contemplate those things let alone even doing them. Her response was." It was the drugs mum, I just didnt give a damn, I didn't care about myself or others therefore nothing was worth being responsible for except drugs." Unfortunately she fell prey to seeing others do things and get away with it and survive so she thought she would. And she did. So those young impressionable teens growing up listening to conversations at school, at parties etc are going to make the very same decisions. There will be very little we as parents can do about it but not totally nothing. Every little bit helps in some way.
Oh by the way I am not suggesting in any way, shape or form that these two girls were doing drugs what I am saying is that the invincibility factor or the dont give a damn factor is a sidefactor of what drugs are doing in our society. Changing the way our children think about and the way they are treating and living life.
Well that's my opinion.
Dirt