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My parents didnt want me driveing with more than a couple people in the car when I started driving, especially any kids. Kids = distraction and its hard enough to drive when you are an experenced driver.



I agree but in rural areas, young teenagers driving their siblings around, legal or not, is more common than not.

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I'm sorry but not all foster parents run foster homes for the right reasons. This may have been an isolated incident but chances are things of this nature with this family arent uncommon. Even that Aunt didnt see a problem with it.



You're right, foster homes often aren't run for the right reasons. But since this particularly family was adopting many of their foster children, and therefore forfeiting the state money for caring for them, they were obviously well-intentioned.

And, as for not seeing a problem with it, again, it's just the way things are in rural areas. Having lived in rural areas most of my life it was unusual if you weren't driving by the age of 13. And by that time, the girls in particular, were tasked with providing a lot of care for their siblings.

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I dunno, watching innocent lives be taken by ignorance just fires me up! I'm not saying an adult would have made the situation different if they were behind the wheel or inthe passenger seat. But chances are they wouldnt have been there at that exact time if they would have arranged for better transportation.



True, but innocent lives would still have been taken -- the 9 children on the school bus that escaped with 'only' serious injuries would have almost undoubtedly been killed if the Bonneville had not been there to take the brunt of the impact. Note that I'm not saying the teen driving the car commited a noble act by 'saving' the children on the bus as she most certainly didn't.

While having a 15 year old chaufeur young children is certainly not the brightest thing in the world to do that act of ignorance is not what killed those children. It would be difficult to draw the conclusion that that act of ignorance even contributed to it, since minor or not, supervised or not, the accident would have almost certainly occured the same way.

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