Good, Bad parents or neither?

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dies-injuries-sustained-high-speed-crash.html

teenaged driver who crashed the Ferrari he received for his birthday only the week before has died.

Akshay Panducherry, 18, died Tuesday after battling injuries he sustained during the October 19 accident, authorities said.

The teenager, who lived in suburban Atlanta, had been driving with his cousin, Harshavardhan Patlolla, 21, who suffered severe burns and remains in critical condition

 

[SandEagle]

sad.

here's one of a 19 year old who crashed her lamborghini
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...h-powered-Lamborghini-Abu-Dhabi.html?ITO=1490

 

[ringtail]

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[MagickMan]

A friend's son was killed riding the Hayabusa he received for his 18th BD, took out a guardrail doing >120mph and went over a 200' cliff. You don't give kids that type of vehicle, let them work and get it themselves one day. By then they'll hopefully have the maturity and skill to handle them.

If I had a kid she'd get a diesel Volvo wagon, and like it!

 

[mmntech]

When you learn to fly a plane, they start you out in a Cessna 152. They don't drop you into the seat of an F-18 and say "have at it". 18 is far too young to have that much power between your legs, especially unsupervised. Though it just goes to show that you don't have to be particularly intelligent to be wealthy. Fortunately this recent spat of collisions haven't involved anybody else for the most part, yet.

 

[OverVolt]

When you learn to fly a plane, they start you out in a Cessna 152. They don't drop you into the seat of an F-18 and say "have at it". 18 is far too young to have that much power between your legs, especially unsupervised. Though it just goes to show that you don't have to be particularly intelligent to be wealthy. Fortunately this recent spat of collisions haven't involved anybody else for the most part, yet.

Nah I could have when I was 18. I probably would've broken something on it though.

 

[BoomerD]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dies-injuries-sustained-high-speed-crash.html

teenaged driver who crashed the Ferrari he received for his birthday only the week before has died.

Akshay Panducherry, 18, died Tuesday after battling injuries he sustained during the October 19 accident, authorities said.

The teenager, who lived in suburban Atlanta, had been driving with his cousin, Harshavardhan Patlolla, 21, who suffered severe burns and remains in critical condition

BAD parents. Everyone knows Asians can't drive...😛

 

[SearchMaster]

In the mid 80s, my cousin bought a new 5.0 Mustang on his 18th birthday with money inherited from his father's death a few years prior. He totalled it the first day, no insurance, but thank God he wasn't seriously injured.

Kids can certainly kill themselves in a Camry just as easily as a Ferrari but a sports car induces a feeling of invincibility and euphoria through high speed that a normal car doesn't. Those parents are going to have to live with that decision the rest of their lives.

 

[edro]

I think back to all the crap I did with my cars when I was 16-20.
It's a good thing I had a Civic and not a Ferrari, or I might be dead as well.

 

[boomhower]

Bad parents. Giving an inexperiences driver a high powered car is a recipe for disaster. Now if the child is one of those who have been racing since they were little then fine, but these do no seem to be those types of kids.

 

[Vdubchaos]

BAD parents.

No one at that age realizes that lots of power comes with a great responsibility.

Just about every single one of my friends (and me included) came VERY close to death during teenage years in 80-120hp cars.....

Ferrari would be a death sentence.

But who knows, maybe his parents wanted him dead. There is some sick people out there and giving a teen a Ferrari is basically telling him that.