NJ passes laws that are shitty....

[Raziaar]

I was over at my uncles place yesterday, celebrating four simultaneous birthdays(amazing, yeah?).

Anyway, I was in the back room looking through an old yearbook. It didn't have me in it, but instead it had a couple of my younger cousins in it, for an elementary school I used to go to back in Alaska. I recognized some of the kids in it through many of the grades.

I come across the picture of the school principal, who became principal like a year or so before I finished sixth grade and moved on to the newly constructed middle school. She was quite awesome and made a real personal connection with each of the students in the school as she could.

My cousin looks over my shoulder and says, "Oh, Mrs. ______? She died a couple of years after we left."

"She died? How?"

"Car accident."


And so it was just... wow. That's terrible.

It's depressing to think about. I wonder what the circumstances of her car accident was. Was it a young driver? There's a high school near the same town that kids drive to on the road to it. I don't know... but it still sucks so much when you hear of somebody you know or knew that died in an automobile accident. Even if it was just a reckless or careless driver it's just as bad.

Other types of deaths strike just as hard too of course, but automobile accidents are a sore spot for me. Have had family members involved in them. One who was almost never able to be independent or walk again.

http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/031303/new_20030313002.shtml

http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/031303/new_20030313001.shtml


I could only wonder what other people suffered similar fates in that yearbook. Or the people in my old yearbooks.


EDIT: The first link seems to indicate what appears to be an accidental series of events that it happened.

According to Anchorage police, Connelly, 55, of Palmer was traveling southbound on the Glenn Highway March 6 just after 8 a.m. when she collided with a red, flatbed pickup truck.

Police reports state the truck was traveling in the left southbound lane before venturing off the highway toward the median.

"The flatbed kicked up a tremendous amount of dust, apparently limiting visibility," said police spokesman Ron McGee.

Connelly's Ford Taurus ran into the rear of the truck and was then hit from behind by a Ford F-150 pickup. The impact drove Connelly's vehicle into the flatbed truck, and redirected the pickup off the right side of the highway, states the report.

A forth vehicle, a red Dodge Ram pickup also traveling southbound, attempted to avoid the accident by steering toward the median. The Dodge missed Connelly's vehicle, but hit the rear of the flatbed truck and ended up in the left lane of the northbound highway, said McGee.

When firefighters and paramedics arrived on the scene, Connelly was trapped in her vehicle.

"The woman was trapped in her car and we had to cut her out," said Jeff Hartley, spokesman for the Chugiak Volunteer Fire Department. "When we got her out it did not look good."

Connelly was taken via Lifeguard helicopter to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage where she was pronounced dead.

No one else was seriously injured in the accident, said Hartley.

Depressing.

 

[Shyam]

**** young drivers, they should pass this law nationwide so I can be wary of ****ing idiots.

This, F***, young drivers. The most retarded age group driving cars.

 

[Danimal]

Australia stuff.



Sure they're annoying for like 5 seconds when you have to buy the things and place them in your vehicle. But err so what?

The stigma you get for wearing those P plates in the first place is bad enough as it is.

The amount of cops that pull my friends and I over to pull the "You can't have more than one non-relative passenger in the car after 11pm" thing, too. D:

"But I'm on P2's, that doesn't count."
"Oh. Okay. THEN YOU MUST BE DRINK-DRIVING!"
*Takes breath-test* "Evidently not."
"Oh... Well... Carry on."

 

[Ridge]

What would a sticker do then? It may make other drivers cautious but it wont stop a teenagers cockiness and invincible feeling. Honestly, raising the driving age would've been a better route if they want to prevent accidents.

@DEATHMASTER - Even if you spot all young drivers, there are a ton of idiotic drivers on the road, I honestly believe a sticker would be more distracting, other drivers would stare at it and not pay attention to the road.

Agreed.

What I WOULD like to see is a secondary license/tag, showing that you have completed additional training, and are therefore given a bit more leeway in how you operate your vehicle.

 

[VirusType2]

Agreed.

What I WOULD like to see is a secondary license/tag, showing that you have completed additional training, and are therefore given a bit more leeway in how you operate your vehicle.

I have been approved for donuts and burnouts.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I wouldn't mind a color coding to show all the crap idiots have on their record. Yes...I think 15357 would approve.

 

[Emporius]

It's thanks to shitty young male drivers that I've had to pay much higher insurance premiums than my fiancée. Thankfully this will be the last year for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtEp...3023BC9D6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3

 

[StarBob]

Seems like a pretty weak argument to complain about a sticker. I mean it'll probably prevent accidents and keep kids from breaking the law. I mean it's a statistical fact that young drivers cause the most accidents, followed by the elderly. It's been that way since people actually started taking statistics. I see the people that get in accidents all the time. The people that accelerate ridiculously and speed excessively. Half stopping at stop signs and squealing their tires any time they can. They're usually the same people that have dings and damage at various places on their car because they drive like idiots.

I mean I'm not a perfect driver, I usually go a little over the speed limit and people that go under (especially by 10 or more mph) drive me INSANE, but I don't do anything to put myself or my vehicle in danger. I don't think a $4 sticker is really much of a hinderance to point out the kids that do the things I've stated. I'd rather know just to stay away from them.

 

[Rico]

I drive without a license completely (well a beginners) by myself and I drive as safe as possible - I never speed, I'm an extremely defensive driver.

All my friends with licenses - EVERY ONE has been in an accident though and I've been driving just as long. Only 'accident' I've been in is when I hit a deer, and even then I was going 30 under the limit (it was really icy, limit was 50), and thats not really something you can avoid anyways.

It's true it is cockiness and arrogance in young drivers, but to penalize all of them for a few idiots is just idiotic itself.


And while I'm at it: That law that only lets drivers with a certain number of years experience drive 1 person is stupid. I always drive my drunk friends home there is no way I'm letting them drive alone, I'd gladly take a ticket for not obeying that law.

Umm, isn't it illegal to drive anywhere with a learner's permit without someone with a driver's license in the car? I'm pretty sure you'd get more than 1 ticket if a cop pulls you over and finds a guy with a learner's permit driving a car full of drunk teenagers...

 

[Adrik_Senturu]

*lives in new jersey*

*doesnt have a car*

*doesnt care*

HEH.

 

[Dog--]

Umm, isn't it illegal to drive anywhere with a learner's permit without someone with a driver's license in the car? I'm pretty sure you'd get more than 1 ticket if a cop pulls you over and finds a guy with a learner's permit driving a car full of drunk teenagers...

Yea I'm just saying if I had my G2 and got pulled over for that. It's a bullshit law.

 

[V-Man339]

I love how none of the states can get age restrictions straight.
You can buy M for mature games at 17, do anything (but drink) at 18, sign up for the army and act at 16 along with own property, you can drink at 21, and you can rent a car at about 25.
12 year old: What?