Another headline involving young people dying in car crashes. This time 5 teens from Irvine.
According to the LA Times:
Police say the 17-year-old driver, Abdulrahman M. Alyahyan, a senior at high-achieving University High School, was speeding south in an Infiniti on Jamboree Road near Island Lagoon Drive when the car swerved out of control and struck a tree, the violence shearing it in two. What was left caught fire.
I can only imagine the pressure a young teen boy has to be cool and the thrill of having a lot of people in his car.
As a parent we can set limits on the amount of passengers we allow our kids to have in their car. We can talk to them a lot about car crashes.
Perhaps this boys parents did just that.
My heart goes out to these parents. I wish we could stop waking up to headlines like this as these are avoidable crashes.