Mike
Member
By the grace of God, I didn't wrap my car around a tree as a teenage driver. I'll never know how I went all that time into my mid-twenties without totaling my car.
So about 6 months ago, our 18 year old daughter was turning left into her place of work, Taco Bell, across two lanes of oncoming traffic. The guy in the inside lane stopped so she could get through, but you guessed it. She didn't account for the lady cruising along in the outside lane. Her car was totaled. Her fault. Both drivers were fine.
Yesterday, guess what... She was that car in the outside lane cruising along. Traffic stopped in the inside lane to let a car turn left. I fully expect our insurance company to deem it a total loss. Our daughter was fine, but the other driver was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. That's all I know. God be with her.
Though the other driver was at fault and issued the ticket, our daughter contributed to the wreck. There's something to be said for defensive driving, and most teenage drivers don't get that. You don't speed by stopped traffic on the outside lane, when you never know what will be trying to pull through. You cautiously approach and half-expect someone to try something stupid.
As painful as it is to pay astronomical insurance rates for teens, it's totally understandable. They're a menace!
She is a typical oblivious teenage girl behind the wheel, but I was stupid reckless as a teen. I remember doing something like 90mph on a 40mph street in a suburban area. In the last few seconds, I had to lock on the breaks coming to a screeching hault at a red light to avoid going through it. A guy pulled up next to me and screamed at me to slow down. Fortunately for me he wasn't a cop no one carried cell phones back in the day. Of course, our kids will never hear those stories. I was always a very cautious driver.
Any confessions from your teenage driving years? Come on. Your kids won't see it.
So about 6 months ago, our 18 year old daughter was turning left into her place of work, Taco Bell, across two lanes of oncoming traffic. The guy in the inside lane stopped so she could get through, but you guessed it. She didn't account for the lady cruising along in the outside lane. Her car was totaled. Her fault. Both drivers were fine.
Yesterday, guess what... She was that car in the outside lane cruising along. Traffic stopped in the inside lane to let a car turn left. I fully expect our insurance company to deem it a total loss. Our daughter was fine, but the other driver was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. That's all I know. God be with her.
Though the other driver was at fault and issued the ticket, our daughter contributed to the wreck. There's something to be said for defensive driving, and most teenage drivers don't get that. You don't speed by stopped traffic on the outside lane, when you never know what will be trying to pull through. You cautiously approach and half-expect someone to try something stupid.
As painful as it is to pay astronomical insurance rates for teens, it's totally understandable. They're a menace!
She is a typical oblivious teenage girl behind the wheel, but I was stupid reckless as a teen. I remember doing something like 90mph on a 40mph street in a suburban area. In the last few seconds, I had to lock on the breaks coming to a screeching hault at a red light to avoid going through it. A guy pulled up next to me and screamed at me to slow down. Fortunately for me he wasn't a cop no one carried cell phones back in the day. Of course, our kids will never hear those stories. I was always a very cautious driver.
Any confessions from your teenage driving years? Come on. Your kids won't see it.
