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Cousin flipped his Prelude driving 88 mph

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Originally posted by: Leper Messiah
Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: Wonderful Pork
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
What year did he jump to when it wrecked?
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haha! I was thinking that, but didnt want to be the first to say it.
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lmao!! I just got that. 🙂
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I don't. 🙁
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back to the future.
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Damn I read through the thread hoping that no one made that reference yet 🙂

1.21 Gigawatts!
 
Originally posted by: rh71
damned kids are a ton more likely to do stupid things when friends are with them. I think it would help if young drivers weren't allowed to drive anyone but themselves or adults. That to go along with no driving at night rules, etc... the junior license rules...

BTW, it takes an accident to teach kids not to do something again... at least nobody else (innocent) got hurt this go-round. Maybe this saves someone else's life down the road.
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and of course even mored when they think they are in a performance car. it corners like its on rails!!! the limits will be pushed so much further. mad with power basically.
 
I just can't even conceive going 88 mph on a NARROW road with bendy curves of angles of at least 50-60 degrees. God that's ridiculous...
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: rh71
damned kids are a ton more likely to do stupid things when friends are with them. I think it would help if young drivers weren't allowed to drive anyone but themselves or adults. That to go along with no driving at night rules, etc... the junior license rules...

BTW, it takes an accident to teach kids not to do something again... at least nobody else (innocent) got hurt this go-round. Maybe this saves someone else's life down the road.
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and of course even mored when they think they are in a performance car. it corners like its on rails!!! the limits will be pushed so much further. mad with power basically.
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yup. give them a corolla, i say. slow, and so amazingly boring that they won't even WANT to drive it fast.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
damned kids are a ton more likely to do stupid things when friends are with them. I think it would help if young drivers weren't allowed to drive anyone but themselves or adults. That to go along with no driving at night rules, etc... the junior license rules...

BTW, it takes an accident to teach kids not to do something again... at least nobody else (innocent) got hurt this go-round. Maybe this saves someone else's life down the road.
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In Maryland, there's a graduated licensing system.

Learner's Permit (same as everyone else - get an adult)
Provisional license (Same damn thing as a full license except that it WILL be suspended on your second moving violation, unless you're under 18, and then you can't have any other minors not related to you by blood or marriage, can't drive between midnight and 5AM unless going to or from a school or work related function, and a few other things that I can't remember. These restrictions don't apply to 18+ year olds, only the suspensions. If you're under 18, the person who signed for your license can also have it revoked at any time during this period)
Full license is granted only after 18 months of clean driving AND not until age 17.5 at the soonest
Alcohol restriction comes off at age 21.

Oh, and I know a kid that ran into a garbage truck head-on in his parent's RANGE ROVER doing 80+ on back roads. He didn't learn anything from the incident - and was back doing it as soon as he was healthy enough to drive his parent's brand new, shiney Escalade.
 
Originally posted by: archcommus
My 16-year-old cousin who had his license for one week flipped and rolled his Prelude going 88 mph on a 12-ft. wide curvy road in the woods with two passengers. No fatalities, luckily, but both of the passengers were hurt severely. Both are out of the hospital now, not sure if either have lasting damage. I'm also not sure if either of their parents will file charges on my cousin.

How long do you think he'd lose his license for something like this? Until he's 21 maybe?
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This is why 16 year olds should be driving bottom of the line Civics and Cavaliers... nothing with any power. I knew a lot of kids when I was in high school who did the same kind of thing.
 
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: rh71
damned kids are a ton more likely to do stupid things when friends are with them. I think it would help if young drivers weren't allowed to drive anyone but themselves or adults. That to go along with no driving at night rules, etc... the junior license rules...

BTW, it takes an accident to teach kids not to do something again... at least nobody else (innocent) got hurt this go-round. Maybe this saves someone else's life down the road.
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and of course even mored when they think they are in a performance car. it corners like its on rails!!! the limits will be pushed so much further. mad with power basically.
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yup. give them a corolla, i say. slow, and so amazingly boring that they won't even WANT to drive it fast.
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or an old american car. the shuddering, the lazily rolling body during turns...all nice reminders ur not gonna get away wtih mch
 
Originally posted by: aplefka
Fvcking asshole. How new of a prelude was this? Was it his car (aka his parents gave it to him)? I hate assholes who take stuff for granted.
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a kid m brothers went to school with had a 89 camaro, his parents put a new engine in it for him (by new it could just mean one that worked, or actually new, i have no idea) and he decided hed test it out.

so he gets 2 friends, one hops in the back, they get on one of the curviest roads in town on their school lunch break (this road, btw, was a quarter mile from two of the straighest roads in town, both of which have light traffic) and hit about 120.

the guy in the back buckled up in time, made it out with a broken ankle. the two in front died when the car hit a tree.

some people just ask for it.
 
Originally posted by: thomsbrain

yup. give them a corolla, i say. slow, and so amazingly boring that they won't even WANT to drive it fast.
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Or a bus pass.

Too bad he didn't die.


 
Originally posted by: klah
Originally posted by: thomsbrain

yup. give them a corolla, i say. slow, and so amazingly boring that they won't even WANT to drive it fast.
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Or a bus pass.

Too bad he didn't die.
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Wishing that upon ANYONE, even someone who did something as stupid as this, is equally as immature as my cousin was.

 
Originally posted by: archcommus
My 16-year-old cousin who had his license for one week flipped and rolled his Prelude going 88 mph on a 12-ft. wide curvy road in the woods with two passengers. No fatalities, luckily, but both of the passengers were hurt severely. Both are out of the hospital now, not sure if either have lasting damage. I'm also not sure if either of their parents will file charges on my cousin.

How long do you think he'd lose his license for something like this? Until he's 21 maybe?
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Dear God, I hope so. You should worry about the police filing charges on your cousin - they will want to teach him a lesson he won't soon forget.

I'm glad they both survived. They were lucky.

 
it's the old case of the parents buying car for kid, kid not appreciating cus they got it for free. i've seen it everwhere. i think it's a horrible idea for parents to buy kids cars. they dont appreciate it. i bought my first car when i was 16 and now im 21 and i still have it!!!! never been in an accident or gotten tickets in it.
 
idiot there is no reason to go that fast on a curvy road. Actually no rason to go that fast ever, only time i even apprach 80 is on the parkway. Maybe he will learn
 
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