Teen Killed in Fiery Crash

[bohman]

Exactly, because we don't train them. That is my point. Almost every one could do it, were they trained and used some logic about task management. Exactly how much attention you have, and apportion to the tasks as needed. Driving down the beltway at 0700 Sunday morning, not a whole lot going on, you have plenty of attnetion to what is going on enough to cover any possible threat vector and still hold a conversation. Change that to 0830 Monday, your conversation will be very broken up as there is so much more going on around you. That's why cockpits are very chatty places at 35,000 feet, not so much during landing and approach.

I see your point (and agree with you), but training would require the general public to give a damn about what they are doing, and I'm not optimistic about that happening any time soon. Some people won't even bother to change out of their damn pajama pants to go shopping, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to consider threat vectors.

 

[FED_UP]

I see your point (and agree with you), but training would require the general public to give a damn about what they are doing, and I'm not optimistic about that happening any time soon. Some people won't even bother to change out of their damn pajama pants to go shopping, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to consider threat vectors.

Heck, lets just start wearing a towel to the store, put on the pajamas when you get back home.

 

[glhs837]

I see your point (and agree with you), but training would require the general public to give a damn about what they are doing, and I'm not optimistic about that happening any time soon. Some people won't even bother to change out of their damn pajama pants to go shopping, I'm pretty sure they aren't going to consider threat vectors.

No, they wont. And we, as a society, wont require even basic emergency driving training, let alone advanced stuff like this, and teens will remain the most over represented group in fatal traffic crashes because of that.


I read recently that even though we have managed to drop the number of fatalities per mile traveled to the lowest point since I think 1949, teens still have increased how many of them die in crashes.

 

[DipStick]

Wanna be "reporters". I saw pictures of my daughter's garage fire online (not mentioning the site) before she had a chance to CALL ME. I saw it was her backyard in the pictures and went into a absolute panic. I saw the pictures the next morning and she didn't want to call me at 2:00 am to tell me about her garage fire (when it happened).
Question: How can this person come onto private property and take photos without the permission of the homeowner?

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[DipStick]

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[DipStick]

No, they wont. And we, as a society, wont require even basic emergency driving training, let alone advanced stuff like this, and teens will remain the most over represented group in fatal traffic crashes because of that.


I read recently that even though we have managed to drop the number of fatalities per mile traveled to the lowest point since I think 1949, teens still have increased how many of them die in crashes.

We have a winner.

They don't even teach basic defensive driving. Granted, this stuff takes time to learn, we don't even teach the basics anymore. They're taught how to drive the car and taught how to obey the laws. Guess what? Not all the other drivers on the road obey traffic laws.

A newly licensed teenager is not ready to go dancing on 50, on the Beltway or during a snowstorm.

 

[mitzi]

Do you know the photographer was on her property? Just asking because with the cameras and lens available you can be quite a distance away and the pictures look like you were right on top of the subject.

Yes, he was on the property.

 

[mitzi]

Wow, I can only imagine your disbelief when you first saw those pics. You must've done a few double takes until you were sure it was your daughter's property. I hope nobody was hurt.

I'll say that I'm glad I'll never have to find out bad news about family members through the media because we have no family in the area.

The garage wasn't attached to the house. They were fine, just upset. That's why she didn't call me until the morning because they were ok and it didn't effect the house. They did lose a lot of stuff though.