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Yesterday, a driver who had been involved in a fatal crash on Webb Bridge Road died. The victim was 18-year old Akshay Panducherry, who crashed his ferrari on October 19. The ferrari was found burning at the bottom at the bottom of an embankment around 4 AM on the day of the incident. Both Panducherry and the passenger, 21-year old Harshavardhan Patlolla, were able to escape the burning car. However they were severely burned and were airlifted by helicopter to Grady hospital in critical condition. It was evident that driver had been speeding by the magnitude of damage on the car.
This a prime example of the thousands of fatalities caused by reckless driving - furthermore, by teenage reckless driving. However this leads to the question: why was an 18 year old driving a ferrari? The teenager was most likely given this car by his parents - a generous gift at the least. Numerous teens from Johns Creek are also lucky enough to be driving such expensive luxury cars. Yet these materialistic posessions might be causing feelings of entitlement and overconfidence that prompt teens to speed. It's easy for teens to become restless - in this case enough to lose their lives. Being showered with expensive gifts would only feed these emotion.
This incident ties into the theme of not making "destructive decisions." We've all learned about how bad drinking/texting and driving is from all the drilling of the past few years. But this type of reckless driving isn't necessarily caused by a substance or tangible distraction; it is reckless driving at its core - not obeying the laws of the road and driving with extreme overconfidence. This might as well be the first thing they should teach us not to do in driver's education.
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