How can reckless teenage driving be prevented?

A limit on the engine size for a few years after passing their test. No new driver needs to drive a big powerful car. And a ban on carrying multiple passengers for at yeast a year after getting a license.

Several viral TikTok crazes have caused severe physical harm, property damage, or legal trouble. The platform has repeatedly hosted dangerous physical stunts, toxic ingestions, and destructive pranks that put participants and innocent people at risk.

I wonder about you and your age maturity if you think this is Ok and it bears no comparison to typing on a parenting forum.

You think what ThickTok promotes is ok do you?
Are you ok if one of the stunts they promote kills YOU or your family?

Would the owners of the sites that promote dangerous stunts and people being killed be happy for their children to see these things?

Of course there is a lot more that can be done. We need a Zero tolerance to idiots who want to film harmful and illegal stunts.

Facebook have just been in court, so it is possible.

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A move to self driving cars only would solve this.

But in the meantime, let’s make parents accountable for the actions of their children up until they’re 21. These people weren’t studious kids who woke up and stole a car and killed people. We haven’t lost a cure for cancer here - these are scrotes who will never contribute to society as they’ve had no values instilled in them. Parenting should be taken much more seriously.

But at the end of the day, this was probably the fault of a 23 year old man and there’s not
much you can do at that point with our justice system - they’re allowed to get away with crime after crime until it escalates. It doesn’t even have anything to do with driving.

There is no situation. It’s an isolated in incident. The statistics show that

Sounds like you just want the situation to continue?

Interesting developments on the BBC website. One of the 5 had previous for assaulting police officer. Plus the police have arrested 12 others in connection with the crash.

I think the Government has to take charge with this as parents cannot always, despite often trying the best they can. There’s a limit to how much you can tell a 17 year old to do or not do. I have a 17 year old DS and I can’t control what he puts on Tik Tok or who he gets in a car with or what that driver does. The government need to bring in strict laws around young drivers, particularly young males who have recently passed their driving test.

Black boxes (for everyone).
Dash cams

And a collosal amount of money put into traffic police, number plate recognition cameras and cracking down on ghost number plates and fake MOT's.

Not UK.We had a huge problem until recently. It's still an issue, but not anywhere near as bad.

We have strict restrictions. Provisional drivers licences for 3 years. Lower demerit points allowances, curfews, passenger limits, especially ages (except immediate family), limits on power, and if you hoon you lose your car for a period of time & too many times and it's forfeited (even if it's a parent's car). Huge fines.

We're also seeing reductions in teen car crime as the law has changed to charge them as adults. Before, there was no consequences and car theft was rife. I used to see at least two ripping along with 14 year olds behind the wheel on my suburban early morning walk, now I see none. It's still there and we'll never get rid of it, but restrictions & consequences, like jail, have deterrent the less determined.

I honestly think this is awful parenting/ an awful attitude:

“I’d likely leave the area if not the country in shame having raised someone who thought this behaviour was ok”

shame is not a noble emotion. It’s highly damaging.

And yet here you are, on social media, engaging with it and everything. On a site where it is abundantly clear money is the main driver and the active feed is manipulated to serve up the most goady posts, which inevitably lead to more engagement.

What kind of “strength” do you want the country to display?

I don't think this is true of teenagers in general. Some, certainly. And there is definitely an element of balaclava wearing yobs riding fast motorised bikes on the cycle lanes in my town, I suspect they are dealing/county lines involvement.

But most teenagers are lovely. Kind and thoughtful, interesting to talk to.

the fact that people go to prison for reckless driving didn’t put these kids off did it?

Thank you so much for taking the time to share this. You sound like a lovely adult that young people nowadays exactly need, given that you teach as well, your students are lucky to have you.

I was discussing this earlier with some parent friends - we are all in our 40’s.

I said if my ds did something like that he’d be having a direct cremation and I’d likely leave the area if not the country in shame having raised someone who thought this behaviour was ok.

Not posting on SM about balloon releases in his memory and about him being an angel, or having a funeral with large photos and pillars outside the church.

But I think the families reactions indicate the deep seated issues that have created these situations.

We see all the time “teens do these things “

we once managed to quell other socially negative stereotypes and I think we need to quell this one.

Equally I knew some lads like this when I was at school and I don’t think it’s as simple as bad parenting for all cases.

One boy ended up in prison for stabbing his neighbour and he seemed to have no impulse control at all. It didn’t matter if teachers said “if you do x y will happen” he would do it anyway and then complain about his punishment.

Even as 11/12 year olds we could all sense that something was not right with him.

Its not always the parents but even when it is, it’s likely some deep inherited dysfunction that’s hard to unpack.

Agreed. That way, madness lies.

If they threw the book at them it might put others off in the future!!

How old are your teenagers? Do they have friends you spend time with? None of their parents seem absent, in fact they are way more present than mine ever were.

Gen X were raised by MTV and the key under the mat. Kicked out at 9am, parents out working, they’d be home at some point. I could easily slip out of by bedroom window for an hour or two at night and they would be none the wiser.

We seem to have a set of schrodinger’s parents now, both too involved, helicoptering, overbearing and also letting their children run feral, never knowing where they are at the same time.

I don’t really make Anything of it tbh. You don’t make policy or law based on isolated incidents

It shouldn't be allowed to feed awful things, that's the point.
Country's so bloody weak.

I saw a headline this morning social media companies are being urged to take down videos
Urged it shouldn't be allowed in the first place. Unfortunately owners only care about money

Social media or unsocial media has been an awful thing for society and it's got too big . Far too big and unregulated.

This.
100%.
STOP giving benefits to people who produce child after child and never ever work and never parent their kids.
MUCH tougher measures for low level crime -including loosing your social housing. Take the kids into care and let the adults fend for themselves.
Time for some serious FAFO.

Black boxes for everyone under 21/23.

Linked to insurance/police control centre?

The problem is these were feral kids whose families dgaf about the law, insurance etc. All were in stolen cars?

Dunno what you do about that.

Wow you are so informed on global road safety, I really appreciate that. So what do you make of the recent accidents then? Maybe we are overreacting a bit

I agree with the Education route, but we are clearly also failing that.

This,