Teach Your Children Well

The Suge Knight case of alleged vehicular homicide is sure to stay in the news for a long time, but of the well publicized deadly collisions we've seen over the last day or so, the case of Lexi and Eli Garcia in Wilmington might be the saddest of all. In a set of circumstances that can give even a seasoned LA accident lawyer pause, the teenage brother and sister were killed in a horrific wrong way crash on PCH involving a number of other vehicles.

Working in the personal injury field of law, we are all too aware that sometimes the worst really can happen. Fortunately, there is one thing parents and others can do to try and prevent these kind of circumstances, and it boils down to one word: education. It's true that teenagers do not have the same level of impulse control as older people, but educators and parents can remind kids of two important things. First, that they really can be killed or permanently disabled in a car crash, and then remind them of exactly what that means in terms of missing out on the rest of their lives. Many teens might be natural risk takers but hopefully parents and educators can channel that into healthy areas such as sports or the arts.

Ask ask personal injury attorney in Los Angeles or anywhere else, we see far too many deadly and debilitating accidents involving teenagers. Talking to them might be the best tool we have for preventing more of those tragic instances.