The author usually writes in third-person to avoid writing personal stuff that gives away too much personal information, but this post requires that he does so.
For the second time this year, I find myself grieving for young teens who have died in a car accident. This time it was two fourteen year-old kids who were ejected from the car after the young driver they were with accelerated to unsafe speeds, lost control and went into a ditch. The kids sitting in the back were not wearing seat belts and died at the scene. The two people sitting in the front seats were wearing seat belts and survived. To die like this on Christmas Day...I feel terrible for all the families involved and their friends.
It's an old story...young drivers getting behind the wheel without an adult present; showing off what their car can do, and getting into a disaster like this one.
Seat belts are installed in motor vehicles for a very specific purpose; to make sure that people's asses stay in the seats in the event of an impact.
This latest disaster follows another accident three weeks ago which was eerily similar; two dead fourteen year olds without seat belts in the back seat; two banged up teenagers in the front seat after their car accelerated to over 100 mph and went into a ditch. That accident really hit me hard; one of the kids killed was the son of a good friend of mine.
Kids need to be taught to fasten the damned seat belts and to treat a car like a loaded gun. Seat belts and cars are not to be trifled with or taken lightly either.
The cost from these two disasters is astronomical...four dead fourteen-year olds, two sixteen-year old drivers with two deaths each on their conciences for the rest of their lives, four families utterly devastated in the weeks before Christmas and on Christmas Day...
Words fail me. I am tired of bidding farewell to young people who don't wear seat belts and die after being ejected from the car following a crash.
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