Teen Driving Deaths' Recurring Pain

This is really a local DC story, but I decided to share it because teen drinking and diving is too common in the US.

Teen Driving Deaths' Recurring Pain (washingtonpost.com): "Hands trembling, face flushed, voice a terrified croak, Justin Lapier, 20, tried to explain yesterday how he felt about having killed two of his best friends. ' 'I'm sorry' doesn't cut it,' he told their parents in a Spotsylvania County courtroom. ' 'I'm sorry' is what I'd say if I broke something in your house.'

In a letter to the judge, Lapier described how it happened -- how he was drinking and driving that April night before the accident, how he revved up his new Acura shortly before dawn because his friends 'wanted to see what my car could do.' What it could do -- before it flipped on a winding country road in central Virginia -- was at least 95 mph."

posted by Dan Flies @ 12/10/2004 09:58:00 AM