1 killed and 3 badly injured!?

Question

Did you hear about the car accident in Malibu on PCH? The driver and passengers where all 17 year old high school seniors. They were speeding down a dangerous rd to be speeding on and had been drinking. Do we blame the parents, the schools, the teens or society?

May he rest in peace

God bless his soul and give strengh to his loved ones

I hope that teens their age learn something from this.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-malibu10apr10,0,4429196.story

Answer 1

This is a very sad story,I do say the parents should have had there liqueur locked up,But the parents did not force those teens to drink it.All the kids are responsible for there actions.This is tragic and sad but a wake up call for teens,They need to take pictures and do a slide show at the school of the teen who died.All these families need lost of prayers.

Answer 2

we should blame the student's i mean their the one who makes the decisions.I'm a student and i really care what i chose.

Answer 3

The parents of the driver are to blame, because they should know their children better than they know themselves and they should have known if their child was trustworthy and responsible enough to drive a car.  I know it sounds cruel, but I have children and if I think there is a remote chance that I raised my kids to be stupid enough to drink and drive, or go out with some one that will, there will be no chance of them leaving the house.

The schools are to blame, when I was in school the drinking and driving classes were so boring that they made me want to drink just to pass the time.  The teens are to blame.

Teens are about drunk all of the time just because of the hormones floating through their heads, but teens have lead whole nations in the past.  On the other hand a seventeen year old is a child (for all of you seventeen year olds out there just wait ten years, you will agree), and it doesn’t seem fair that a stupid-with-hormones-child should be punished for the rest of his or her life for anything they do, (please forgive the cliché) life isn't fair.  Actually it is fair, it is equally cruel to everybody, the best you can do is limiting the factors that make it harder.

And society is to blame.  Dr. Spock said don't spank tour kids, society believed it.  I know a lot of worthless adults that weren’t spanked.  Society tells us that kids shouldn't drink, this is a mistake.  Kids should be taught how to drink under the guidance of a responsible parent; otherwise their first drinking experiance will be "DRINK!  DRINK!  DRINK!!" and probably drugs will be involved, and with the alcohol in them they will be even harder to say no to.

All in all this tragety is just a blame grenade going off in the face of everybody that was involved.  I do not wish to sound insensitive, but if this helps somebody, avoid a similar tragedy, it will be worth it.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, I have to say it was the teens fault. It's a shame it came to what it did but they should have known better. While some people put blame in the parents, I can't justify that. There are too many kids who act out in their teenage years and do stupid things. It's *possible* the parents were somewhat negligent but I do not for one second blame them for what happened. The kids were old enough to know what the result of their actions could be.  The schools had nothing to do with it.

In high school, my boyfriend died in a car crash because the driver was drunk. I do not blame the school, his parents or anyone else. It was the driver's fault. Unfortunately, my boyfriend didn't stop him and was drinking too. He was never much of a drinker and didn't do drugs. He and his buddies were out celebrating a birthday and drank too much and made a stupid decision.

It's a hard, hard lesson but hopefully a wake up call for other kids who might be doing the same thing.

Answer 5

if you do the crime

then do the time

Answer 6

Its the invicibility one gains after playing games like grand theft auto ect, plus, kids of 17 are never going to die, they leave that to the oldies! So, I suppose its just a bit of everything to blame!

Answer 7

The teens are to blame.  They got drunk and drove or got in a car with a drunk driver.  They're to blame for their actions.  It's not like anyone in the US doesn't know that drunk driving is dangerous and illegal.

Answer 8

It's been beat into our brains that drunk driving is dangerous, and no matter how many teens die from it they just don't learn. It's tragic, but at 17 you are old enough to know the potential consequences of these actions, and what else can the schools and society do to get through to them? There is drunk driving education everywhere in schools and in the media, so there's no excuse for anyone of any age to be doing it.