12 Years Old and Speeding, Bad Combination

bitter.noc · #1 ● 03-04-2018, 04:02 AM

Five children die in 12-year-old’s joyride

Car was traveling at 150 km/h when it struck a tree

A 12-year-old-boy was at the wheel of a car that was traveling at 150 kilometers an hour when it crashed into a tree in the south of Mexico City Sunday, killing five children and injuring three more.

Police said the minor was driving a four-door Pontiac G3 passenger car on the Eje 10 Sur thoroughfare in the borough of Tláhuac when he lost control of the vehicle and spun off the road at around 5:50pm.

All of the victims were thrown out of the car when it flipped upon impact with the tree. Three girls and two boys, all aged between 12 and 14, died instantly, police said.

Three other children were taken to a local hospital while a 10-year-old boy who survived the crash ran home to alert his parents to what had happened.

The driver, identified only as Luis Eduardo, sustained light injuries and was taken into custody.

Photos of the crash scene show a mangled car with its windows smashed and parts scattered on the ground. The bodies of the five children who died were all dismembered.

According to a report in the newspaper Milenio, the minor had his parents’ permission to drive the vehicle and had invited his friends from a local middle school to accompany him on the joyride.

The division of the Mexico City Attorney General’s office (PGJ) responsible for investigating crimes involving minors said that the boy will be investigated for vehicular homicide.

However, the PGJ said via Twitter last night that in accordance with criminal laws for adolescents, the boy will not go to prison because he is under the age of 14.

The minor was placed under the protection of the DIF family services agency last night because his parents failed to pick him up from the Attorney General’s office where he had been held since the accident.

Bastet · #2 ● 03-04-2018, 04:18 AM

That's awful. Considering the end result that wasn't exactly a "joyride". I wonder what the heck the parents were thinking. Were they really unaware that a 12-year-old is not yet developed enough to drive a car?