Anyone watched 'The Crash' documentary on Netflix?

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It's about a 16 year old American girl Mackenzie Scirrilla, who killed her boyfriend and their friend by driving into a building at 90mph. The devastation of the families of the dead boys is awful, but the reaction of the parents of the girl, my God!!! Talk about delusional.

Funnily enough, after listening to a fascinating Minds of Madness podcast about this very case, my best mate put it on while I was over there (both true crime nuts). It is truly frightening how deluded that girls parents are about their benign neglect and enablement of her behaviour leading to their culpability here! I intend to watch it again soon so that I can really pay attention, rather than just being open-mouthed in shock throughout.

Yes. Just watched it too. As you say totally gobsmacking the delusional parents. Summed it up when they were recounting how she got suspended on her last day of school for yet another incident. Father called to pick her up and when he arrived ‘she was sobbing’. He asks if she’d committed whatever in fraction and she says ‘no’. Apparently he knows when his daughter is lying and her saying ‘no’ was good enough for him that she hadn’t done what they had accused her of.

Also they let her at 17 go and live with her 21 year old boyfriend because ‘she was so mature’. She was anything but, however a small (very small) part of me felt a bit sorry for her because she’d been badly let down by her parents. The mother even admitted to her lack of parenting when she said she didn’t need much parenting because she was so well behaved and it was only ‘her mouth’ that caused problems!

She was 17. It was a few days before she turned 18. He was only just 20. The relationship was hugely toxic and the parenting baffling. I don't really understand how he had this house at 20 but his brother lived next door. The poor other boy, too - Davion. Collateral damage as far as she was concerned, it seems.

I just watched it. A tragic situation all round.

Whether it was deliberate and pre-mediated is still a question in my mind. I’m more inclined to think she intended to scare the crap out of them and it went wrong. She still deserves to be in prison for that, the outcome of her actions killed two people. Her parents did her absolutely no favours through her life, right up until her mother gave her statement in mitigation and argued with the judge. Apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree there!

The only thing that did really bother me was the use of her social media by the prosecutor to besmirch her character. That felt rather misogynistic, and feeds into the terrible teen girl narrative. It would have been much better to get statements from all the people who had experienced the worst side of her.

That girl was a typical spoilt rich kid who has had "gentle parenting'.
All her parents did was make excuses. She had no remorse at all. Hope she rots in jail.

No but I saw it in YouTube. All credit to the police

The pair of them were clearly drug dealers.

Haven’t watched the documentary yet, so I don’t know if they included the jailhouse phone calls between Mackenzie and her mother. They have to be heard to be believed. They’re available on YouTube.

@DulciUke are they under any particular heading on youtube?

It's on Netflix I think

Her parents are jaw-droppingly awful and delusional.

The phone calls can be searched under Phone Calls from Prison Mackenzie as keywords. Thanks OP, for mentioning the doc. I’ve followed the case, but didn’t know that Netflix had done a documentary.

I haven't seen the Netflix documentary but I've watched it on YouTube. It did seem very clear she'd planned it beforehand.

@Tuxedomaddness just search for her name on YouTube, it seems to be a high profile case as there are quite a few videos about it.

Just watched this. Crocodile tears, no remorse and certainly no culpability by Kenzie. Extraordinary parenting by her parents; I couldn’t work out if she had any siblings?

How on earth does a 17-year old, just graduated, live with her boyfriend in his own house and how did she drive such a powerful, expensive car?

I felt so much for Davion’s parents, they’d taken those 3 children into their homes and given them a better life, only to lose him. You could see the difference in their parenting. His sister spoke beautifully and I’m so glad the scholarship in his name is successful.

shocking all round.

Dreadful parenting lead to this horrible tragedy.

Delusional parents. Before they even opened their mouths I knew they were going to be a problem. The dad had the audacity to wear a t-shirt saying BOOM! Disgusting people and they are as much to blame as their child as her entitlement clearly comes from them

The car she was driving was a Toyota corolla, a very popular, average car and not particularly powerful or expensive. It was probably leased for her by the parents.

I too felt so bad for Davions family, and the way her mom had to remind herself to use his name and referred to him to the judge as "a new friend" in a throwaway manner as if he didn't matter was disgusting.