Over protective parents thread …?
This is so ironic/wrong/stupid/etc…
Theres no one to blame but the kid. To say its the parent’s or somewhat the parent’s fault is wrong.
Damn, this happened 45 minutes south east of me.
Lots of country roads, great places to open up a new viper. sounds like he drifted off the road slightly due to the crest of a hill or a curve sprung up suprisising him. I know I’ve taken weight of the tires driving riding in my friends fiero at just over 100mph and cresting a hill. The viper could easilly go faster than that and drift off the road.
For every kid the hits a pole 1,000 kids like me survive highschool doing stuff like that. It’s not stuff I would do now, but somehow I lived through it then.
What you really need to worry about this time of year is coming up over a hill and plowing in to the back of slow moving farm equipment. That and drunk driving is how most of our rural road deaths happen.
That kid just couldn’t handle the power of the car and wanted to see what it could do before he was ready.
All this being said, WHAT IDIOT PARENT BUYS THEIR KID A VIPER!?! Not only does it spoil the kid (you should drive a POS with pieces falling off it in highschool, it’s character building) but who DOESN’T think hes going to go open it up on a few country roads and probably kill himself? You give highschooler POS cars because they generally can’t go fast enough to cause much damage.
//edit: I can all but garuntee that if I had a viper 6-7 years ago when I was in highschool, I would have wrecked it, and I probably wouldn’t be here today. I wasn’t mature enough back then. Even if I got one now I’d give myself 50/50 odds of wrecking the damn thing. Back then? 50/50 odds of fatality.
Your so wrong, Junior.
500hp is not a car for a KID.
Well to me its each others fault. What was he thinking of giving a young driver a dodge viper for his first car? Also the kid should of been either driving around with someone that could give tips on driving the new fast car or give him before he started to drive it on how dangerous cars really are.
Trev
It’s like giving a 15 year old a flame thrower and telling him not to shoot it.
Not even this truck would qualify as a car for a KID.
I guess if you don’t have that kind of self control, you shouldn’t be DRIVING!
yeh 150mph is too fast. I crashed mine and mine only does 100. give him a small crappy car that doesnt have a large top speed or fast acc.
Trev
save it for the tracks. 
that was pretty dumb of both the kid and the parents. the parents are uber-stupid to buy their kid a bajillion dollar superfast car like that and then set him free with it. and the kid is just stupid because, well, all kids are stupid.
My first car was a 1981 Jetta.
In 1994 
I see no problem in giving a child a fast, expensive car, if their child is responsible. WHo knows, maybe this was a kid who had never gotten a speeding ticket, never wrecked a car, and was very responsible. The parent’s decide to give him a nice car as a presnt for whatever reason, and he abuses it a little. I see no major error in either the parent’s or the son’s judgement. And who are we to judge, not knowing the exact cuircumstances. Shame Shame.
that could be completely true, but I think it’s unlikely. and even if it is, I do see major error at least in the son’s judgement, because you’re not supposed to drive cars at 150mph on curving winding backroads!! most people realize that, or they would if they stopped to think for a second.
Just reading the articles (I only watched about half the video), it seems that it was just the father’s car that the kid took for a drive. Perhaps with permission, perhaps not. And as for the speed etc, who knows how fast he was going? Maybe he had never had a realwheel drive and simply lost control by stomping on the accelerator? (525 hp can do that to ya).
The 17 year old kid with the Viper survived. He killed his 18 year old passenger and friend.
This was sooo dumb on so many different levels.
For one he shouldn’t have had a teenage passenger in the car with him at that age and especially in a car like that. Passengers are a distraction and 17 year old kids driving a Viper don’t need any extra distractions especially when they are trying to learn how to drive a car with 500 hp.
Giving a 17 yo a sports car like that is just asking for trouble. There is not a single person here (me included) who would not have tried to get that car going fast back when they were 17. Who wouldn’t have tried to smoke the tires in 2nd and 3rd gear? You just can’t give a 17 yo a car like that and send them on the open road.
At a minimum he should have never been able to take that car out without his dad or mom in the passenger seat. If they want to play with the car and see what it can do they should have taken the kid to a legal drag strip or race track.
Another big problem is that when you’re 17 you are still learning how to drive. You’re going to drift off the road onto the shoulder. It’s gonna happen. You’re still learning how to control the car. Hopefully it happens while there is a paved shoulder. Hopefully it happens when you’re not going fast. Hopefully it happens on a straight stretch of road and not a corner. When it happens with a rear wheel drive car with 500 hp bad things can happen.
Eh the problem is he was only 17 he couldnt have been driving for long at all. I drove a car with hp up there but the owner was in the other car in front of me. I wouldnt let anyone just learning to drive learn on anything with hp.
how do you know that some kids race cars when they are ten and he would have been driving for at least a year. geeze common i would go race that thing (fridays nights at SRI). i really dont think driving is that hard. maybe i just have a gift 
My first car was a 1986 pontiac acadian (canadian chevette) which I bought for 600 bucks.
My next vehicle was an 87 Nissan pickup, it was blue and a 4 speed stick, best 1700 bucks I ever spent. That truck was awesome.
Then my latest car was a 1989 Honda CRX (2200 bucks). That car ripped, and was good on gas. You could fill it up for just a little over 20 bucks, and drive the hell out of it. It purred along at 2300 rpm at 110 kmph, and I had the speedometer pegged a couple times (over 200 kmph.) I would definitely reccomend this car if you want something to tool around in; back and forth from work or whatever.
Anybody else want to share their first vehicles?
According to your profile you are 16?
Your attitude is exactly why someone who is your age shouldn’t have a viper. I thought the same way when I was your age (it hasn’t been that long.) I doubt he thought driving was that hard either. And pretty much all 17 year old males think they “have a gift” and are hot shit drivers. That’s why they get in so many accidents.
It seems like it at the time, but a year IS NOT a lot of experience.
(I don’t mean to personally insult you by saying this)