Three Teens Die After Pickup Truck Flips
Piling into a vehicle with as many of your peers will fit and traveling as fast as the vehicle will carry you is an adolescent rite of passage. When one person in your friend group gets a driver’s license and permission to borrow his or her parents’ car, everyone rides. If golf carts are plentiful in your neighborhood, then the vehicle in question could be a golf cart. It might seem like harmless fun, and the goal might be just to get from point A to point B in style, but an inexperienced driver in a vehicle full of passengers is a risky situation, even if the driver does not intend to drive fast. Driving requires your full attention, even when you have been doing it for years and the ride is predictable. A car full of noisy, excited teens would be a challenging experience even for a professional driver, to say nothing of someone who just got a driver’s license. If your teen son or daughter got injured while accompanying a group of friends on the maiden voyage of a newly issued driver’s license, contact a Fort Lauderdale auto accident attorney.
Novice Driver Lost Control of Vehicle While Navigating a Curve
An instance of teens bending the rules turned deadly in Orange County earlier this month. Orange County imposes a curfew whereby people under the age of 18 cannot be out past 10:00 p.m. Despite this, six teens between the ages of 13 and 17 went out for a ride in a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck; the driver was 17 years old. Some of the occupants of the vehicle were students at Apopka High School, and others were students at Kelly Park School. Staying out late was just the beginning of where things went wrong.
The driver was trying to navigate a curve at about 1:00 in the morning, when he lost control of the car and crashed into a tree. The collision caused the pickup truck to flip. Three of the occupants of the vehicle sustained fatal injuries, while the others suffered non-life-threatening injuries. News reports said that four of the teens were not wearing seatbelts; both of the teens who were wearing seatbelts survived. News sources did not publish the names of the victims or of the survivors.
As of November 2025, no other information is available about the causes of the accident. When a minor causes a car accident, his or her parents are responsible for damage the teen driver caused. This means that the parents of the injured teens can file claims with the at fault driver’s insurance. It also means that the families of the vehicle occupants have the right to file a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit against the parents of the teen who was driving the pickup truck.
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A personal injury lawyer can help you get justice after a preventable accident caused by a teen driver. Contact Boone & Davis in Fort Lauderdale, Florida or call 954-566-9919 to explore your potential recovery options today.
Source:
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