Oh I perfectly agree that I would want to know and yes I think it is very important that it comes out whether or not her parents were informed of her ticket.  My son got his first ticket at age 17 and I did not find out about it until he went to court without either mine or my husbands knowledge and his girlfriend slipped up and told me where he was.  When I called the clerk of the court I was informed that they had no duty to inform me of his ticket that because he held a drivers license he could plead before the court without a parent/guardian/lawyer.  I was outraged.  Needless to say my son did not plead before the court without me there and I made him have them postpone his court date.  Of course he would have rather have me not found out because he lost his car and his priveleges for a month and then I made him pay for defensive driving school and the state fine for it to be passed to the files without going on his record.  Teens are not adults, parents have right to know

Must, as a parent, I want to know that I would be informed. Then when my child continues to do stupid things, I will know their punishment was not enough. As someone who shares the road with this kid, I want to know whether her parents were aware of what she had done a month before she killed some parents’ two kids. Did her mom and dad know and how did they deal with it?

That was the worst feeling hearing that phone ringing against almost complete silence of the night, wondering if it was her mother or father on the other end wondering where she was or what she was doing.  Finally, the phone went dead and frankly it was a relief.  I to this day do not know why she was in my town that night, she was not from here and no one could ever figure out why she was 30 miles from her home and job at that time of night.  There was no alcohol or drugs involved, just a young girl, driving too fast, late at night and it cost her her life. 

Sorry for the rant, but as parents we have to try and install some fear in our children when it comes to operating a vehicle.  Vehicles are 2 ton missles or coffins, which ever you want to call them.  For me, I always make my son go and see the accident scene with me or the vehicle afterwards so that he can see that death and serious injury do happen and that it can happen to him.  JMO

southfan1981:  You have some great ideas, however, if the paretns do not enforce them they would be just more laws on the books that there are not enough teeth in them to actually make the teens to abide by them.  Though I do believe that this young lady should and will pay for her wreckless behavior that caused the death of 2, I also believe that we have a generation of Nintendo kids that do not REALIZE how FINAL DEATH IS.  Teens today for the most part think they are 10 foot tall and bullet proof and have a serious “It won’t happen to me attitude.”  I have worked several accidents involving teens and the one that haunts me to this day is that of a 18 year old girl who was speeding and wrapped her car around a light pole.  It was so severe we have to have the wrecker pull the car from he pole before we could get her out.  While we waited for the coroner and the wrecker the girls cell phone rang and rang.

What happened to her Bench Trial scheduled for 7/29 regarding the speeding ticket from May?

Regardless of the outcome of this case, we need to consider how we can be better parents to our children. I want to be informed by the police if some teen driving my car was speeding. I want a graduated license to keep inexperienced drivers off the road in the evenings and late at night. I want a teen’s number of underage passengers limited. If parents will not say no, someone has to.

WELL SHE STILL SHOWS NO EMOITION FOR WHAT SHE HAS DONE AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HER!!!

This is such a sad story

So it is a State Trooper now who gave the speed estimate?  This was originally reported as an estimate by Citronelle police.  Now she was racing again?  I know this is a relatively minor story however WKRG should be more accurate with the facts of the case instead of giving their viewers this rubbish.

Hmmm…the defendant must be unhappy….but her attorney, Mr. Beck, is secretly giving himself high fives because he can bleed more money out of the family…or whoever is stuck with the bill…Hes just wondering how many mortgage payments he can get out of this….