Kid from my school dying

[93_xj]

So today 2 kids from my school were driving wreckless on the way to school, both driving s-10s.

This kid tried to pass the other s-10 around a corner in a non passing zone doing atleast 30+ over the posted limit and hit a chevy work van head on.

Apparently hes pretty banged up, in critical condition.



Very sad but he has nobody to blame but himself. I really the rest of the kids from my school who drive take this accident and learn from it, because I could see this happening again sometime before graduation.

[mdl]

how old?

[Lincoln]

Don't stress about it because they won't. I lost count of how many cars one of my friends has totaled. They told him two rollovers ago if he hit is head again it would cause severe brain damage, little did they know they were too late. He could total a car within a week of getting his license back, I guess he didn't want to drive. :D

[olivedrabcj7]

Sad but one kid died out of my class every year from 6th grade through 12th. car accidents, sickness, OD, being idiots on 4 wheelers and seadoos, etc. Sad but it should be a lesson to everyone else to quit being XXXXing idiots.
I lost 2 very very close friends in highschool in a car accident. Both had very bright futures but made one bad decision that cost both their lives. Im truly sorry.

[93_xj]

he was 16 or 17, i just know hes a junior and hes on the 5 year plan.

his brain is swelling and bleeding

[mdl]

he was 16 or 17, i just know hes a junior and hes on the 5 year plan.

his brain is swelling and bleeding

Friggin shame. I'm sorry for his family.

[olivedrabcj7]

he was 16 or 17, i just know hes a junior and hes on the 5 year plan.

his brain is swelling and bleeding
yep. that happened to one of the guys in the car wreck i was talking about. Its been a while but i seem to remember them saying if the brain swole too much it would cause permanent damage and he would pretty much be in a vegitative state for life. His parents did him a favor and let him go. Its no fun to think about.

[Geepfreak]

Sorry for the family.!

But I'm becoming "whatever" in my old age as far as kids go..
You be stupid,,, death takes over....

[93_xj]

Sorry for the family.!

But I'm becoming "whatever" in my old age as far as kids go..
You be stupid,,, death takes over....

thats how i am thinking about it.

i am gonna go to school tomorrow and every person is gonna be crying and the principal is gonna make an announcement, sure its sad, but do i feel bad for him, not really. He made a stupid decision and now he is paying the consequences.

[UNCC_99XJ]

Hate to hear it, but as you said he was driving like an idiot...it's a shame he had to hit a innocent person probably just trying to get to work this morning and get about their normal life. How did the innocent guy turn out?

Being a freshman in college I saw alot of this stupid stuff last year. I couldn't believe how many extremely close calls I saw from others driving like idiots (A couple of them from people I was riding with to lunch, scared the crap out of me and didn't even phase them). I was one of the rare people in HS who actually took driving seriously, and I still do.

Heck I even remember my sophomore year, eating lunch outside on the patio, nice comfortable spring day outside. Minding my own business when I see this kid who was a very popular senior coming back from lunch. Driving a very nice Mazda 626 that he had put alot of work into, tried to pass somebody on the wrong side of the road (2 lane road). He went to far over and got off the pavement just a tad, overcorrected, and came back over across the road, and cut off the person he was trying to pass. Luckily the other person managed to slam on the brakes in time, but he kept right on going out of control and wound up in the ditch on the right side of the road, upside down. He fortuneately walked away from the accident, but in the end his baby was totaled, and he became the source of alot of laughs for us from his stupid act.

[93_xj]

unsure how the innocent people in the car are, will know tomorrow, it will be all over the newspaper

[karstic]

Unfortunately it is all too common. Happened here in SoCal on Monday. 18yo in a Beamer was racing his 20yo buddy in a Benz. 18yo rolled, killed himself and critically injured the 16yo and 17yo female passengers in his car.

[93_xj]

Im from a small town in Connecticut where everyone knows everyone so when someone dies it affects the whole community.

[rocklandxjer]

im sorry for the kid, even though it was a stupid thing to do, you cant say hey he deserves it, no one does, he would deserve to have the car taken away or liscence, but death, or brain damage, thats not...

my prayers are with him and his family, hope everyone involved learns, and if he survives, i hope he does too...

[xjtrailrider]

More young people die in car accidents in the U.S. each year than all of the young men and women that weve lost in the Iraq War, total. But you dont here of any politicians wanting to do anything about it. I know that since they took Drivers Ed out of the schools in VA 3 years ago, our teenage accident rate has gone way up.

Not all teenage drivers are bad but the ones who are make up for the ones who aren't.

[Rev Den]

As someone who drive a "work truck" everyday.....sorry for the kids, but hopefully the guy driving the van who was just minding his own buisness trying to earn a living for his familly will be OK. Everyone worrys about the truckers on the road.....it ain't the truckers....its your kids, and thier parents you gotta watch.

Rev

[RichP]

My sons class loss 12 to MV accidents, 6 more to OD's and 3 or 4 to suicides.
My daughthers class lost 14 to MV accidents, 4 to OD's and 3 to suicides.
Alot of these kids we knew, kids grew up with them. One accident killed 3 kids in one car, the survivor who was driving lived, his older brother who was in the passenger seat didn't. His tuner was doing a buck 30 when it left the road and hit a pole in someones yard then thru a corn field into a big rock [we have alot of private telephone type poles round here with mercury lights on them and alot of big rocks]. One kid drove into a power pole because his girlfriend broke up with him, sure showed her. It was almost impossbile to drill into my kids heads that HS is only 4 years of BS and then it's over, only when they graduated did they realize the 'clicks', 'in crowd' and 'most popular' were all BS, neither were in the 'in crowds' but both are on their deans lists at their colleges and with good heads on their shoulders. Proud of both of them...

[Geepfreak]

im sorry for the kid
Really?
He's the last one I'd feel sorry for...

[93_xj]

Really?
He's the last one I'd feel sorry for...

sorry for all the lives he has affected because of a dumb move.


my friend was the first one to arrive at the scene and he had came to school late and was real tweaked and upset, he went to open the door on the kids s10 and all he saw was a mangled body and blood and the kid was not breathing or responding.

[rocklandxjer]

you honestly dont feel bad for the kid guys... granted it was dumb, but honestly is that worth his life? i know you say "oh hell yea, he was being an idiot" but come on, i dont think he deserves to die...

[Rev Den]

i dont think he deserves to die...

I refrain from answering that until we find out the condition of the guy he hit.

Rev

[imma honky]

you honestly dont feel bad for the kid guys... granted it was dumb, but honestly is that worth his life? i know you say "oh hell yea, he was being an idiot" but come on, i dont think he deserves to die...
Yes, I do.
Some people should not be in the gene pool.

I feel for his parents. But I can only hope the others in the wreck are ok.
Stupidity is in abundance lately.

[UNCC_99XJ]

I refrain from answering that until we find out the condition of the guy he hit.

Rev

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[johnlv6]

Sounds like a kid i went to school with. He was driving an S-10 blazer, fawking off, and got in a serious accident. He was lucky enough to be able to walk many months later.

[rocklandxjer]

I refrain from answering that until we find out the condition of the guy he hit.

Rev

very true... now that i think of it, i agree... lets wait to see how the guy who was just driving like usual is, then decide

[XJ Jeepin Girl]

Really?
He's the last one I'd feel sorry for...

Sometimes something this stupid and reckless is what it takes to make kids realize that no, we are sadly not invincible.

Then again, sometimes not.

Hope all is well.

[jfox21]

im sorry that had to happen. I just recently lost a buddy to a dui. he was in the passenger seat while his friend was being drunk and stupid on the freeway. the car ended up flipping and killing my buddy. the driver is still in the hospital.

things like that make you think. i deffinently have calmed down my driving since highschool. granted i never made retarded passes around curves or across double yellow lines, but i did drive somewhat fast occasionally. my thoughts go out to his parents and friends. hopefully the driver of the other car is ok. sorry bro

[93_xj]

from the news paper

Three people went to the hospital with serious injuries Thursday morning after a head-on collision involving two trucks. Police said a truck driven by Robert Welch, 17, of 242 Bach Pond Road, Voluntown, was headed west on Taylor Hill road as one driven by Gary Stringer, 54, of 233 Preston Allen Road, Lisbon, was headed east.
“For reasons still under investigation,” police said, Welch's truck, a Chevrolet S-10, “crossed over into the eastbound travel lane” and collided with Stringer's Chevrolet van.
Welch was reported to have serious injuries when he was taken by Griswold ambulance to The William W. Backus Hospital. A passenger in Stringer's van, Eva Stringer, 85, was taken to Backus by American Ambulance, with what police also reported as serious injuries.
An official at Backus said neither Welch nor Stringer was a patient there at 11 p.m. Thursday.
The accident remains under investigation, police said

[rocklandxjer]

wait so are they being treated or not? did they get released before 11pm. or were they... no longer a patient..

if he is responsible for the death of an old woman, i say he does deserve what he got.
eye for an eye.

[RichP]

Anyway you look at it it sucks, the whole thing, it always does. Thinking of the one here where the little brother was driving, lived and killed his older brother just because they wanted to go fast, having to live with that and your parents, other brother and sisters is going to be a nitemare. Killing someone on purpose is one thing, killing thru an accident is a totally different story...

[Fish'nCarz]

Unfortunately life is a DIY sort of project, and we learn a lot from the mistakes we survive. I feel truly sorry for everyone effected by this accident, but what are you gonna do? We've made it harder to get a driver's license, but when you are dealing with kids who are prone to doing dumb things in the pursuit of fun sometimes bad shit happens. It sounds as though the offending driver in this case was passing illegally, and should he pull through, he should lose his license for a good long while in addition to anything else they throw at him. He screwed with a lot of totally innocent people, some who are just worried about him. He deserves very stiff punishment. But he doesn't deserve to die, if only because of the grief that this would cause everyone around him. Walking around he'll be a good reminder to the rest of the kids in town.

[Lawn Cher']

Walking around he'll be a good reminder to the rest of the kids in town.

Rolling around like Stephen Hawking, he'll be a better reminder.

[Fish'nCarz]

Rolling around like Stephen Hawking, he'll be a better reminder.

Yeah, but then somebody else has to wipe his a$$. Not a job I'd wish on anyone!

[UNCC_99XJ]

wait so are they being treated or not? did they get released before 11pm. or were they... no longer a patient..

I Believe the hospitals are not required by law to release information of whether or not "john doe" is a patient or not. I believe the same thing happened this week with T.O.'s little OD thing...the hospital denied to reporters that he was a patient there.

Man I hope the best for everyone...especially the innocent guy.

[Lawn Cher']

Yeah, but then somebody else has to wipe his a$$. Not a job I'd wish on anyone!

I bet he could get a fancy chair with an integrated bidet.

[shortxjdoug]

yeah it happens too often, last year a guy died in a car accident as a passenger, and the driver, one of his best friends, got out of the hospital in just a week, they were going to get breakfast before school and the driver just got stupid and fast.