That's a bummer. Not to give the wrong impression, but without knowing all the facts I would say a 16-year-old driver is more likely the cause for an accident than someone who drives for a living.
My high school seemed to have a particular fascination with death. And for a school with 1100 students, I found this somewhat disturbing. There was a stone wall out front of my high school with the names of those who had died. My friend refered to this as "the wall of death". I'm sure no one cares about this, but here is my account of the people who died in high school.
Freshman year some kid and an older friend of his stole an SUV and took it on a joyride. Going way too fast on a small road in the early hours of the morning, the car went airborne over a hill and promptly smashed into a tree killing both.
Sophmore year a girl who had been raped commited suicide. The asshole responsible was acquitted from his trial which really pissed me off. He had a brother in my grade who was also an asshole and their parents were later jailed for credit card fraud.
My parents were long time friends of the girls parents so I had known her and her family for as long as I can remember. Their family was poor and both parents worked 80 hours a week just to make ends meat. She and several of her sibling were adopted and after she died her family sold their house and moved away.
Junior year someone in my grade who I didn't know was killed. It was only a month into the school year and he had moved here from out of state. There were only 300 kids in each grade so I'm sure I had seen him at some point, but I had never heard of him until he died. He and a couple friends were vandalizing some structure somewhere. When they left they crossed a highway on foot. He had dropped something while crossing and was struck by a truck while trying to retrieve it.
Senior year my graphics teacher was killed in a motorcycle accident. I really liked his class too, which is odd considering I regard my time in high school as a complete waste. There were these computers and I would play Counter-Strike on them or post on the OTF, and somehow managed to get a C without doing any real work. After he died we had a substitute for about two weeks which was a sad time. We weren't required to do any work after he died and after those two weeks the class was changed to a study.
Also in senior year a group of kids who had graduated the following year got stoned and piled into one of those old Plymouth land yachts. They collided head on with another car killing all 4 of the kids, and 2 people in the other car. The pictures of the accident were very chilling. The Plymouth had been split in half with each end 200 feet apart. There was also a picture of the speedometer stuck at 80mph.
So a lot of it was people being stupid, but that's what kids do at that age. Regardless, to lose your friends and peers at such a young age is devestating. They say high school is preperation for the real world. Maybe death is part of that.
