why is

coxy · February 16, 2016, 12:25:53 PM

it that young kids16-20 always think that if they have all wheel drive they can go any where today i was going to check on my skidder 2 miles from my house on a bad back road( even in good weather ) the roads where all ice and here is this SUV in the ditch on its side i get stopped and a young gets out i asked if she was ok said ya do you need help no a tow truck is coming :-\ :-\ i left got about 3miles down the road and the owner of a repair shop was coming told him not to try it he told me who the girl was well it was someone i knew but haven't seen the kids since they where 4-5 years old i called the mother and asked if she wanted me to get her with my ATV cause i was not going back with the truck got her home everyone was very thankful i picked her up in the rain with an ATV so i did my good deed for the day 8) 8)

Chuck White · February 16, 2016, 12:36:04 PM

I don't know, Coxy, it just seems to work out that way!

Younger people get a 4x4 and think they're invincible, same as younger hunters have got to have the biggest, baddest multi-magnum rifle to kill a deer that will only dress 130-150 pounds.

sandhills · February 16, 2016, 12:47:43 PM

I have 2 teenage daughters and for the most part we have decent county roads, rough usually but gravel, it scares me when they leave but they have to learn some how. They've grown up learning much like I did, from a young age following my tractor from field to field so that helps my nerves a little but I've seen too many of these kids in wrecks that could have been deadly and a few were, I'm too dumb to drive a 2wd anymore but glad the girls are learning in them I think it makes them think a little harder about what they're getting into.

goose63 · February 16, 2016, 12:50:23 PM

coxy its not just the young I stop for a 4x4 dodge up side down in the ditch mom in her 50s daughter in her 30s mom says I don't know went wrong we were had it in 4x4 and was only going 60 well now the roads were all ice at least no one was hurt

WV Sawmiller · February 16, 2016, 01:27:13 PM

Coxy,

Glad you could help out. All part of learning for new drivers I guess. And they need to learn that just because they can go with 4WD does not mean they can stop. When we first moved up here and bought 4WD truck the first time the canceled school because of heavy snow my school teacher wife, happy to have a day off decided to go shopping. She quickly found that even 4WD does not do good in 2' of snow. Glad nobody was hurt.

beenthere · February 16, 2016, 02:15:20 PM

Agree as goose said.. it is not just the young (we all knew everything at that age :D)

Many older folk as well with little experience (that comes by trying it out) will say they can do it as they have 4x4. Nothing teaches better than experience.

Locally we lost a 9 year old in a roll-over, 4x4. Mother (39 yr old) driving her four children (18, 11, 9, 7) on a 4 lane rd. Only the mother and the 18 yr old were belted in. The younger ones were thrown out of the vehicle and one died, other two in serious condition. Knowing the easy answer doesn't solve the tragic end result for this mother.

Deese · February 16, 2016, 03:15:09 PM

That's terrible :(

drobertson · February 16, 2016, 04:06:52 PM

not just young ones, I did it today, sort of, went to a friends to pic up some left over stickers, got to the point where I thought "this yoto ain't gonna back back out, to slick," well got all loaded checked out the cabin build and sure enough, stuck in a slick 1/4" slime that's all, had to go further down the hill to give him way to get around and then he pulled me back up on flatter grounds,, some 2 wheel pick ups are helpless,, mine is one of them,