Originally Posted by Thirteendog

You know they are called accidents for a reason.
Texting while driving and causing a car crash is not an accident.

Mark a 17 year old driver is just as experienced as a 26 year old driver that started driving at 25.
Where did you get that statistic? I think you made it up. Too simplified. There's a lot of experience gained with age, son... mainly maturity. Obviously this 17-year-old has not matured much past the age of 14. Perhaps his parents are part of the problem, but at this point, we'd be assuming too much about that.

I think our country has become a little to lawsuit happy.
I'll agree with you, but if it is revealed that he WAS texting AND speeding, it would be the proper procedure for the county prosecutor.

Maybe Boiler (John) should've sued the state of Tennessee for allowing that creek to be in his way last October. I'm not trying to start a flame war but everyone makes mistakes, and to put a kid who hasn't even started life in the hole for making one just isn't right imho.