Maybe they need to change the 'parenting' age in Canada and the US Macfarlane............In 1977, when I was 16, the school buses were all driven by my contemporaries.
Children.
16.
Huh. What has changed?

I'm sorry, I misspoke, Canada was considering changing the driving age. Just like the u.s. they are "concerned" about the number of young deaths, just not concerned enough to lose the income. My children will only be allowed to drive if they 1) maintain at least a B average in school. 2) they work 20 hours a week at a legitimate job. If a kid is mature enough to operate a vehicle, they are mature enough to pay for gas and insurance. If they want to grow up so fast, they can learn the joy of having bills.

I'm sorry, I misspoke, Canada was considering changing the driving age. Just like the u.s. they are "concerned" about the number of young deaths, just not concerned enough to lose the income. My children will only be allowed to drive if they 1) maintain at least a B average in school. 2) they work 20 hours a week at a legitimate job. If a kid is mature enough to operate a vehicle, they are mature enough to pay for gas and insurance. If they want to grow up so fast, they can learn the joy of having bills.

I'm sorry, I misspoke, Canada was considering changing the driving age. Just like the u.s. they are "concerned" about the number of young deaths, just not concerned enough to lose the income. My children will only be allowed to drive if they 1) maintain at least a B average in school. 2) they work 20 hours a week at a legitimate job. If a kid is mature enough to operate a vehicle, they are mature enough to pay for gas and insurance. If they want to grow up so fast, they can learn the joy of having bills.

Perhaps this is a little off the subject, but how can we expect drivers to have good driving habits, when in this country we give children drivers licenses. Fact is, this country wont change the driving age to 18, because there is too much money to be made. Insurance companys make money, car makers make money, petroleum companies make money....funeral homes make money. We sacrifice the children to increase the bottom line. Canada recently change their driving age from 16 to 18, perhaps they care more about their kids than Americans do theirs.

Knee Deep - when we put up those speed cameras and those red light cameras people flip the hell out and call it an invasion of their privacy and unconstitutional because it "tracks" them. Without becoming a police state, how are we supposed to monitor every single mile of back road? We can't use those speed cameras, no no no!

I think the only people who are really against those cameras are the ones who constantly break the laws of the road.

I am in agreement with those below me that most likely a phone was involved.

jack, thats truly a shame. i know the driver and without saying too much i dont think the results would have been too good

No police presence in neighborhoods or back roads where speeders are MOST dangerous,but,on the 4 lanes & interstates,where speeding is safer,cops hiding,cameras, unmarked patrols,helicopters & other aircraft.Is it about safety?

Since time began excuses have always seemed to be a defense for everything. I highly admire those who know the right thing to do is to accept responsibility by admitting their wrong. It takes a very brave person to do this. It is true we should never judge. It is also true that we should call right - right, and wrong - wrong. Too many times tragedies have been reported as accidents. I'm not sure this is correct: Is it an accident when someone speeding through a neighborhood street hits or kills a person? Is it an accident when one who passes the night decides to drink and then drive and causes harm to others? Is it an accident when we steal the most precious thing from another such as his or her life? I see nothing here that can be remotely construed as an accident. Not being judgmental, I would say these things occur because of choices we make! And, from now until the end, what we do or do not do is all a matter of choice!!!!!!!!!!

C2, Go pound salt...

Hit seums like tu me that it was nut a prublem wit speling butt wit textuing.

I feel bad and sorro for both of these families. I am speaking from experience with this road. I lost my sister and daughter in a car wreck on Carters Valley Rd in 2002. Then my step - dad in 2004 just off this road by Tiny Mkt. Then my 16 yr old nephew on Payne Ridge Rd in 2005.

After all this I moved my mom off this road. I refuse to drive on it anymore. I am not taking up for anyone. This road is very curvy and dangerous. I do hope and pray something good does come out of this. Maybe to get the State to look on how to fix it..

No one knows what was going through either of their minds. No one knows if she was on the phone. So please everyone just let it be.. There is enough heartache and pain without name calling... There will be ALOT of blaming and questions by the ones involved so PLEASE NO MORE BAD OR RUDE COMMENTS..

And yes to the question when an fatality is involved there is BAC taken and autospy to be preformed..Let the families deal with this in peace..

MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO BOTH FAMILIES..

You never know what was on her mind when she crossed the center line. She may or may not have been involved in drugs or alcohol or taken a medication. She may have been a diabetic. There are lots of things that may have happened. Only the person driving the jetta would know what she was doing at the time. And even she may not know depending on what happened. It is a bad situation all the way around. I would say let's wait until the investigation is completed and see if any facts are released. Until then let's express sympathy for both victims.

The thing we need to remeber now is Patti's family and quit pointing fingers right now.

The young lady that was driving the other car made a big mistake that she will have to live with for the rest of her life.

I feel that we need to say a small prayer for her also.

The following statistics come from a study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI):

* Of all cell phone related tasks - including talking, dialing, or reaching for the phone - texting while driving is the most dangerous.
* Teen drivers are four times more likely than adults to get into car crashes or near crash events directly related to talking on a cell phone or texting.
* A car driver dialing a cell phone is 2.8 times more likely to get into a crash than a non-distracted driver.
* A driver reaching for a cell phone or any other electronic device is 1.4 times more likely to experience a car crash.
* A car driver talking on their phone is 1.3 times more likely to get into an accident.
* A truck driver texting while driving is 23.2 times more likely to get into an accident than a trucker paying full attention to the road.
* A truck driver dialing a cell is 5.9 times more likely to crash.
* A trucker reaching for a phone or other device is 6.7 times more likely to experience a truck accident.
* For every 6 seconds of drive time, a driver sending or receiving a text message spends 4.6 of those seconds with their eyes off the road. This makes texting the most distracting of all cell phone related tasks.

is it or is it not Mandatory to give the driver a blood test for drugs when a fatality is involved? sounds to me like C.A. had the "narcotic nod" and crossed the center line....

Julie and Jo Jo Fink you must be feeling guilty of using your cell phone or texting while you drive. Was you there and seen it happen?

Recently,when starting to move forward from a stop at a traffic light,a woman in an SUV,with a cell phone to her ear,went whizzing by,realized what she had just done,several yards on down the rd,slammed on brakes,& looked back at me through her rearview.More recently,on two occasions,i've met drivers on a hill crest,who were using cell phones,& who were across the center lines,having to swerve back.A recent report stated 2000 plus are killed each year because of Cell phones/texting.Local officials pretend to be concerned about safety.Do any of you believe it?

Why must everyone jump to blame someone for being on the phone?? Were you there?? It's a tragic ACCIDENT that the young woman will have to live with for the rest of her life. Do you all really have the free time to be judge and jury over something you have NO CLUE about??

Seems as though comments about this accident infer cell phone use. You're probably correct. I agree that cell phones should never be allowed while driving. As the saying goes, guns don't kill, people do. Likewise, for cell phone users while driving. I don't know how any one could ever live with knowing their conversation via cell phone while driving was more important than a human life.

It seems that everybody knows that the cell phones are the culprit in these fatal accidents.
If you watch the road as you are suppose to be doing while driving,and not fooling around with other things to distract you,this stuff might stop.
I'm for banning all cell phone use in a car,unless you are pulled over in a safe area to use it.

A witness to the crash said that the Civic was going the speed limit. The witness was in another car traveling behind the Civic. There is a slight curve where this happened. The witness said that the rear tires of both vehicles came off the ground at impact. I was traveling on I 75 the other morning at 6am, cruise control on 70 mph when a young lady passed me with her interior light on texting. She was doing between 75 and 80 mph.

I would just about bet that this is another texting related crash. I have been in the car with two people who were texting while driving and BOTH would swerve while they were doing it. Now, if I'm in the car and someone does that I tell them to put it down and stop risking lives.

This is beyond scary to me. I don't know how many articles I have read recently where it stated "the driver crossed the center line." It makes me want to scream, "WAKE UP PEOPLE!" How many more have to die before more people realize you have to pay ATTENTION when your driving. Put down the phone, forget the CD/DVD player and just drive. This is a horrible thing that happened and I might be wrong about this but the woman that died this morning from her injuries was the woman that was just out and about. The woman with cuts and bruises who is listed in good condition was the one who crossed the center line and hit the other one, correct? If so, that's unbelieveable! How sad is that?! My prayers go out to the family in this diffucult time.