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In Reply to: WHAT IS M-LIFE? (MORE) posted by DREW in Cleveland, OH on February 03, 2002 at 21:42:55:
You'd know better than I would whether that road is generally considered dangerous, but IMO, deaths of teenagers do not a dangerous road make.
In the last few years around Atlanta, there have been a great deal of teen driving deaths which prompted a new set of restrictive teen driving laws (which I think are good in general). I don't mean to sound harsh, but in just about every case, the teens (or their parents!) were almost entirely at fault. Below are a few examples.
Three girls are rolling a neighborhood with toilet paper. A resident sees them and gives chase. The girls drive at very excessive speeds through residential areas with their lights off. All three girls killed (no seatbelts), pursuing resident prosecuted (don't remember the outcome). Camaro-vs-Mustang. Camaro goes off course, hits very solid brick church sign at 100+ mph. Both teens in Camaro dead instantly. Three drunk, freshly-tatooed, non-seatbelted boys in a riced-up Civic are doing 100+ mph, weaving through moderate traffic which is doing 60 mph at night on Highway 316 in Lawrenceville, GA. Driver is past his limits (what's always called "losing control"), hits pine trees. Two passengers instantly dead (thrown from car), driver lives a couple of days. Thankfully, no other cars hit. Lots of news coverage and roadside shrine-type stuff.
I know that some of the stupid sh*& I did as a teen could have gotten me (and others) killed, and it would have been my fault.
No doubt there are truly dangerous roads (one example: many teens AND adults killed at a stop-sign intersection in Cobb Co. GA), but the vast majority of news coverage of teen driving deaths is due to driver error.
This was real stupid b/c this was the same stretch of road that killed three teenagers a year ago.
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