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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: texace on February 21, 2002, 09:59:35 AM
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On Tuesday night, around 9:30, Lake Worth High School lost two of our sophemores; Cody Bowden, 16, and Keith Pope, 16, to a tragic car accident. A third teen, Chistopher Simmons, 16, is at Harris Methodist in serious condition. The two teens were killed when Pope's brand new Chevy Tahoe rolled several times.
For those who live in this area, (Ft. Worth or Azle) the teens were driving too fast on "Roller Coaster Hill" on Ten Mile Bridge Road. For those that don't know, Roller Coaster Hill is a section of road that has a steep hill. Cars going even highway speed can catch air on this hill. Pope, who as inexperienced at night drriving, was going way too fast up this hill to make his and his friend's curfew.
Pope lost control, overcorrected, and caught air. The SUV flew in the air an unknown distance before landing on it's front left fender. The truck rolled several times befoer resting some distance away. Pope and Bowden were pronounced dead that the scene, and Simmons was taken to the hospital by helicoper. He may loose his arm.
We here at the school are in shock. Classes yesterday and today aren't getting anything done, as almost the entire school was affected. People are crying heavily, counselers have been brought in, the administration is at a loss.
This is what happens when teens speed. Though the superintendant say that drugs or alcohol wasn't involved, there's a good chance it was. Though I'm 17 myself, I want to urge any parents of teens, especially those who are just now begining to drive, to warn them on the dangers of speeding. LWHS lost two good students due to someone's bad decision, and I'd rather not want to read about a similar accident elsewhere.
Now I must go and help others, since I've been recruited as a semi-counseler. :(
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so sorry to hear about your schools loss
I think ... another time, we'll discuss the driving age as being to young ... gl with your classmates.
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When I think about the confusion of adolescense combined with driving a car, I often wonder how I made it out.
Its tragic to see the odds hit anyone.
Condolences to the families and the classmates.
AKDejaVu
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16 yr old , driving HIS brand new chevy tahoe???
part time after school work must pay better than i thought, or am i missing something ??
how about this ...rich daddy gives spoiled son new toy, spoiled son wrecks new toy
reminds me of the time i drove past a private school, a brand new BMW was stuffed in a drainage ditch with a young sad driver standing there looking at it.
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Bad form. Someone is killed in a car crash and it takes 3 posts to go to the petty jealousy card.
AKDejaVu
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a high school in the school district I work for lost 2 teens, and the driver is in the extended care unit now, he should survive. He pulled out in front of a dump truck. The driver of the dump truck wasn't hurt at all. The front passenger died on the scene, and the rear passenger died a few days later from injuries received.
I could be mistaken on the ages, but I'm pretty sure the driver (who's surviving) was 17, the boy who died on the scene was 15, and the girl in the back was 14.
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/012902/Local/ST001.shtml
is the link to the archived article if you want more info.
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Were they wearing seatbelts?
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It happens. Drugs or alcohol aren't necessary, but they certainly complicate things. When I was 16 I did some really stupid things in cars, mostly at night (never under the influence though). A couple of times, if I had a vehicle with a high CG like an SUV or a jacked-up pickup, the results would have been tragic ("Hey! Sign says 25-mph turn; let's try 70!"). If there had been somebody else around, the results would have been bad (60 mph car chases through suburban neighborhoods with the lights off -- now that's teen idiocy).
And sure, I knew somebody who died. He and his buddies were coming back from a movie and decided to drag race a banana-yellow camaro. They hit about 80, the driver apparently taunted the camaro and didn't notice the slight jink in the road, complete with telephone pole. The engine block flew 200 feet.
Sorry to hear about your tragedy. It's gotta suck.
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A truly sad thing to hear of lives ended before they even had a chance to experience life.
Experience is the best teacher; unfortunately it is often the most expensive.
The bill was REAL expensive in this case. Let's hope a few others at the school heed the lesson.
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No, john, the truck was Pope's mother's. When the truck landed, it flipped end-over-end rather than rolled. It flipped for 300 feet, and Bowden was ejected. All occupants were wearing seatbelts...
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Originally posted by john9001
16 yr old , driving HIS brand new chevy tahoe???
part time after school work must pay better than i thought, or am i missing something ??
how about this ...rich daddy gives spoiled son new toy, spoiled son wrecks new toy
reminds me of the time i drove past a private school, a brand new BMW was stuffed in a drainage ditch with a young sad driver standing there looking at it.
It makes no difference if these kids were driving a car the put together from peices collected at the local pick and pull wrecking yard or a brand new Chevy truck. It is still a tragedy when someone so young with their life still ahead of them dies, even more so when it is more than one that dies.
Oh well, I am sure that I just wasted my time explaining that to you, as your reply pretty much indicates that you are incapable of feeling anything other than petty jealousy, even in the face of something as sad as this.
Anyways, to Texace, I offer my condolences to you and your fellow students.
-math
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Originally posted by john9001
16 yr old , driving HIS brand new chevy tahoe???
part time after school work must pay better than i thought, or am i missing something ??
how about this ...rich daddy gives spoiled son new toy, spoiled son wrecks new toy
reminds me of the time i drove past a private school, a brand new BMW was stuffed in a drainage ditch with a young sad driver standing there looking at it.
What a retarded moron.
My condolesences. I have lost many friends in car accidents, and almost been in a few. Somehow I always manage to be in control, even those times I irresponsibly drove drunk.
Now I rather sleep outside a bar than go to my car in that state.
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When I was in high school ('85), I was driving my Bug with two female friends. Not paying attention, driving a road I had never been on before, I stopped at a flashing red light. Thinking it was a four-way stop, I pulled into the interseciton. It was a two-way stop and a Volvo T-Boned us on the driver's side. I was knocked unconcious and the girl in the backseat broke an arm. The couple in the Tank were not injured.
Fortunately for me, no one was killed and I was able to learn a lot from that accident. Sadly, when it comes to car accidents, many do not get to learn from their mistakes.
Good luck with everything this week, Texace.
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The terrible part about these accidents is that no matter how much you preach to a teenager, they still will make up their mind on their own. I look back now and thank god that I made it through the stupid toejam I did as a teenager. My condolences to their parents. :(
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texace
just remember with the death of your schoolmates, some others will live by heeding one of life's hardest lessons
had a neighbor's daughters very close high school 16 year old friend (sober) killed two years ago when she drove her car right into a tree as she was reaching for her ringing cell phone which was on the floor on the passengers side, pulled the wheel as she leaned over ...
neighbor's daughter was really shook up as she thinks it was her call she was trying to answer .....
three weeks later the tree was removed as part of a road widening project
nothing scary than seeing a child talking on a cell phone with music blarring out the windows while driving down the road realizing they have practically zero driving experience ...
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Yeap Eagler, a few days ago I almost had a girl in an Eddie Bauer Explorer wack me right in the drivers side, she was probably doing 55, talking on the phone. She managed to brake around 5 meters from my car. At the speed she was going and size of her SUV, she would have shattered the fiberglass and probably killed me.
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Sad to hear this. Always sad to hear of tragedy.
Tragedy sucks. I dont like stuff that sucks......
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I don't envy you having to help deal with all that grief....horrible stuff.
My condolences to everyone there...and the parents in particular.
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This hits me a bit close to home, because I'm about your age, and am soon to get my license myself. Speed kills. We are told this again and again and again, but it always seems to take a tragedy to drill this into us, for maybe six months. The someone will forget that the odds apply to them, and it happens again.
It shouldn't have to happen this way.
My condolences. My school (admittedly a small one) has never been struck by tragedy, and I hope fervently that it never is. Hopefully, people will learn, and this will never happen to you or your school again texace.
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-ispar
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Sorry to hear about it tex. I live in the hills here in adelaide and we have had several young ppl die. I've personally been on the scene at 2 fatalaties and one of them I was first on scene(moments after it happened). I've never lost a friend in a car accident(touch wood) but I know I used to a be a stupid driver, ive driven home drunk on several occasions. I have younger friends whom I hope learn a non-lethal lesson very soon. I know I did.
I had a mazda rx-7 series 4, which is moderately quick. I had it for 2 days before it was written off in a fairly bad accident. Neither myself nor my passenger were injured, and it wasnt my fault but I learned how quick these things happen. You really cant do much most of the time except get ready for the impact and hope you survive.
Now days I actually drive slower when I have a passenger, I could go on with my life if I wrote my car off but not if i killed or injured a passenger. Young people need to remember this, cars are a privilege not a right and they're not as easy to handle as they look.
Again, condolences texace.
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I remember when I got my license and my first vehicle(a Yamaha DT200R)...Not long after, I met a buddy at bar and got stinkin drunk...For some reason me felt compelled to ride home and my bud wanted on back.I gave him my helmet(Moto 4) and started the 5 minute trek home...I pulled up to the second last stop sign and promptly fell over,both of us having a good laugh..I picked up bike,kicked it over and was about to put it in gear when I noticed the cop car also stopped on the other side of the intersection staring in disbelief...
To get to the point,my five minute ride turned into a 20 minute high speed police chase...I hopped the curb onto a dirt path,tried to negotiate a speedway type slide turn and sent both of us flying...Buddy took off,I lifted bike off my badly damaged knee and started it luckily on first kick as cop was closing on foot...Passed buddy on path,he hopped back on and away we escaped...
That was the last time I ever drove drunk...
I'm sorry for your schoolmates Texace..Hope you can help some of them get over this...
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Texace!
That sucks dude! I think of lives wasted. It can all happen so fast! Unfortunately it takes something like this to make teens realize how it can happen!
Good luckand my best wishes are with you and your community!
Swagger
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Originally posted by SirLoin
I remember when I got my license and my first vehicle(a Yamaha DT200R)...Not long after, I met a buddy at bar and got stinkin drunk...For some reason me felt compelled to ride home and my bud wanted on back.I gave him my helmet(Moto 4) and started the 5 minute trek home...I pulled up to the second last stop sign and promptly fell over,both of us having a good laugh..I picked up bike,kicked it over and was about to put it in gear when I noticed the cop car also stopped on the other side of the intersection staring in disbelief...
To get to the point,my five minute ride turned into a 20 minute high speed police chase...I hopped the curb onto a dirt path,tried to negotiate a speedway type slide turn and sent both of us flying...Buddy took off,I lifted bike off my badly damaged knee and started it luckily on first kick as cop was closing on foot...Passed buddy on path,he hopped back on and away we escaped...
That was the last time I ever drove drunk...
I'm sorry for your schoolmates Texace..Hope you can help some of them get over this...
Wonderful story. Endangered your life, your passengers life, the life of the Police Officer who has a duty to try and save yours and then you flee thereby risking EVERYONE"S life on the road in your general vicinity. That is a wonderful story of responsibility. It is just as senseless as the death of the teens in the wreck that started this post. They weren't as lucky as you were. In my state that wold make you a felon to boot.
Mav
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heh, in my country if you drive recklessly, sooner or later you'll piss off one of the thousands of "traquetos" (kids of drug lords or kingpins) and you get the receiving end of automatic fire.
I remember a trip my family and I made to a neighboring city, had to take the "highway"... and some buttmunch driving a BUS (empty) was passing people and shoving his bulk in front of cars, almost making them crash..the guy was obviously doing that on purpose.
Till he did that to a guy in a Ninja motorcycle (those japanese sporty racing bikes)..ooh boy, the guy went right up to the bus's side, (we were 2 cars behind the bus) and emptied some kind of submachinegun on the engine and tires.
No idea if the driver got hit, we just passed the bus and went on our merry way.
We dont have police, but heck, its almost as good ;)
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
When I think about the confusion of adolescense combined with driving a car, I often wonder how I made it out.
AKDejaVu
Amen.
Been in several bad wrecks, driven while very drunk, did idiotic things in cars, but somehow was never hurt. Somehow made it out.
Sorry to hear of your friends deaths texace.
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Had a similar story here in Wisconsin last year. 4 teens -high honors, good grades, the works- were on their way back from Madison after meeting the Gov and some other business. They were taken out by a drunk driver I believe. All four.. gone.. in the blink of an eye. Four different kids, four different families. So many people affected by one drunk idiot. Knowing the risks of driving intoxicated doesn't make it worth driving at all. Hell, nothing makes it worth the risk of driving drunk. A danger to yourself and a danger to others. My brother lost his license for a few months and served a month in jail for 3 DWI's... he learned quickly after that experience. It just isnt worth it. My condolences Texace... :(