EXPLAINER: Driver in Texas crash was 13; is that legal?

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Underage, behind the wheel: A 13-year-old was driving a pickup that struck a van on a West Texas road, killing nine people. Here's why so-called 'youthful driving' is so dangerous.

Cash Hogen, a 60-year-old who runs a kitchen and hardware store in Pierre, South Dakota, recalled learning to drive a Ford Bronco “as soon as my feet hit the pedals” – probably around age 10. He’d drive the two-track roads across his family’s ranch in western South Dakota to repair barbed-wire fences or for other tasks.

“Certainly in rural areas there’s a general trend of lower minimum driving ages,” Van Tassel said. “We see a lot of teen drivers have driving experience by the time they come to a formal driver’s education course because they’ve been driving trucks or tractors or other vehicles on the farm. But when it comes to public roads, the laws are pretty clear: You can’t be out there until you’re legally eligible.

Gib Stevens, 57, of Hobbs, leads trucking operations for an oilfield servicing company. He said he himself started driving trucks at age 12 on dairy farms and quiet farm roads, but he said the road where the accident happened was clearly unsafe.

 

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The problem with it isn’t just that the kid was driving, but he was driving on a spare tire on the road. The vehicle was unsafe to be on the road much less driven by an inexperienced 13 yo kid.

ChrisWragge Extremely Dangerous! 🤔😥🙏♥️🇺🇸

13 yo can drive. However women can not have abortions

Texans always go on and on about how they don’t need The Gubmint telling them what to do and then do something like this.

Look's like he will be spending allot of his life behind bars now , r i p to the ones that lost their lives 🙄🤔🔒🗝️

Texans and their freedom

He shouldn’t have been on a public road. Even being with an adult, he didn’t have a permit. The liability of this horrendous accident will ultimately fall on his family.

If both cars were full of guns and women who had been arrested for abortions, this wouldn’t have happened.

How many guns were found in the wreckage?

Oh, no! Sad.

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Of course it's legal. Don't be silly...Boy, you lamestream media just love to trample on individual freedom...

nice WuDicksonn

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