3 teens die in crash

All i can think is that their poor parents must be going nuts!




Three people in their late teens to early 20s died after the car they were traveling in hit a curb and flipped over near Franklin Mills Road, according to Philadelphia Police.

The violent one-car crash occurred just before 8 p.m. Wednesday at 903 Franklin Mills Circle in Northeast Philadelphia.

The red 1995 Pontiac Grand Am, which was registered to an owner in nearby Bensalem, was traveling northbound at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control, cops said.

Two men between 18 to 25 years old weren't wearing seat belts and were ejected. A woman between 18 and 20 was wearing a seat belt and had to be cut out of the passenger side of the car, according to police.

All three were pronounced dead on the scene, cops said.

The car appeared to be going about 70 to 75 mph, a witness said.

"It appears that the vehicle was traveling at a very high rate of speed just because of the damage to the vehicle and some of the gouge marks in the street and on the grass right before the vehicle flipped," Chief Inspector Scott Small. "Three of the four tires were torn off the vehicle."

Police don't believe a second vehicle was involved but nothing was being ruled out as of late Wednesday night

Down here it has become all too common. Johnston County has the HIGHEST teen driver fatalities in the state. The kids get out on the roads (we do not have shoulders on 90% of the roads) and hit speeds of 70+ MPH. ONce the car drifts off the road on to the clay, the driver tries to get back on the road. Instead of slowing down and easing back on, they grab the wheel and jerk the front end back on the asphalt. The front grabs and the rear starts to slide. As the front tires are on the asphalt the car begins it roll.
I have never seen so many cars on their roofs or tumble as I have here. Are the kids watching too many video games or do they believe death does not apply to them?