Teen taking Lamborghini test drive dies in crash

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A teenager taking a friend’s Lamborghini out for a spin was killed when he slammed into a guard rail while going too fast, police said.

Samuel Shepard, 18, died Friday on Long Island in New York after wrecking the powerful sports car.

Its owner, who was a passenger on the ride, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

The accident turned the $200,000-plus car into a mangled piece of wreckage.

Police said excessive speed was a likely cause of the crash.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...-horrific-lamborghini-crash-article-1.1922301
 

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whoa! Thats saying something, and its pretty DAMN LOUD! Don't LET an 18 YEAR OLD drive a car of that caliber, goes right to their head, (would have mine back then anyway!)
 
Amazing how invincible we believe we are at that age. Some of us never get a second chance for being stupid. Sad loss of a life.
 
Why would anyone sit in the passenger seat and let a teen drive that car on a public road wide open? Speeding is enough of a temptation for young boys without encouraging it. The passenger should have been charged with contributing the to delinquency of a minor, and possibly even murder.
 
Chuckman said:
Why would anyone sit in the passenger seat and let a teen drive that car on a public road wide open? Speeding is enough of a temptation for young boys without encouraging it. The passenger should have been charged with contributing the to delinquency of a minor, and possibly even murder.
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Is pretty simple.

Considering that your friend allows you to drive your dream car, and probably a once in a life time shot to do so, speaks of a lot of trust between them both. Even though he was just 18, which is young by many standards, he is also grow up enough to have made the following plans.

Join the U.S, Army. After his service, become a police officer.

Don't bash the young mans mistake or put his friend on a cross because of it.
There was no "Minor" involved.
 
ID bet any money the friend feels just horrible about this! And who of us would've turned down the chance to drive that car when we were 18!! Tragic!! My prayers are with both families, they are undoubtably suffering this loss!! Geof
 
I agree. If i was 18 again you damn right i would want to drive that car. But i was young and made bad choices also. Im lucky im still alive after all the dumb sh@t i did.
 
That wheel in the picture didn't come off that car if I'm not mistaken. Doesn't look like a Lamborghini wheel or a wheel anyone would put on that car.

Anyways it is a very sad and tragic event but I be the was having the time of his life. Of course it wasn't smart but if you put me in that car at 18 and my foot would be glued to the floor. Same goes for 90% of the people on this site weather they want to admit it or not.



At least it wasn't a Ferrari:)
 
95teetee said:
almost as bad as giving a 9 year old an Uzi.
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though I let my 4 year old shoot my .22 I agree
then again, my .22 is a bolt action long rifle

doogievlg said:
That wheel in the picture didn't come off that car if I'm not mistaken. Doesn't look like a Lamborghini wheel or a wheel anyone would put on that car.
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hard to tell, looks like either a BBS wheel or an old firebird snowflake
 
If this kid was "grown up" enough to make plans to be a police officer, he should have known not to drive on a public street like that. Or maybe he was going be one of those cops that cruises at 85-90 on the highway with the protection of his badge.

I had a friend loan me his almost new Vette when I was 19. He was not in the car with me, but I was scared to death that something would happened to it. I knew if I wrecked it I could never afford to pay for it, therefore I hardly got above the speed limit.

Suppose they had slammed a school bus, or a family in a minivan. Would you still excuse it because he was a young kid in his "dream car"? Save the excessive speed for the track, and keep it off public highways.
 
dart340h1973 said:
I agree. If i was 18 again you damn right i would want to drive that car. But i was young and made bad choices also. Im lucky im still alive after all the dumb sh@t i did.
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And imagine... a lot of us made those decisions driving slant six cars. Just as dead. Excessive speed is excessive speed rather it be in a four cylinder car or an exotic.

Please don't tell me that someone driving a four cylinder isn't tempted to drive fast. That's why you see so many teens driving down the road well above the speed limit, tailgating. Oh, wait, it's not just the teens...

I have a question for those who are bad mouthing the decision to let him drive the exotic. How many times do you open the paper in your area and read of a teen dying in some generic car as opposed to an exotic?
 

um, fwiw ,the news blurb failed to state that the driver was just about to ship out {enlisted) and it was a request to a friend/relative to drive his car before he left.tragic non-the less. smarter heads should've prevailed. but what would your answer to the request have been?
 
It's not the car, gun, dope, whiskey, political affiliation. It's the choices we make.
 
It's a shame that he had to die.

A car like that is very tempting to speed in. Especially, when you are young, dumb, and full of cum (testerone).

You have to gradually take steps to handle that much horsepower. It takes some getting used to. You don't just jump into it and let her rip.


Don't act like all of you wouldn't have been tempted to let her rip if you got behind the wheel. I can admit, that I would be tempted also.
 
krazykuda said:
It's a shame that he had to die.

A car like that is very tempting to speed in. Especially, when you are young, dumb, and full of cum (testerone).

You have to gradually take steps to handle that much horsepower. It takes some getting used to. You don't just jump into it and let her rip.


Don't act like all of you wouldn't have been tempted to let her rip if you got behind the wheel. I can admit, that I would be tempted also.
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Exactly. I have done plennnty of things as a young person that were dumb and stupid.
Not proud of a lot of it. Payed my dues for most. Lucky to have survived a lot of it.
That being said. Having survived I would hate to be judged today by things I did in my teenage years. Well the non felony stuff anyway. We all make mistakes. Some we live thru some we don't.
 
Stuff like this has happened since the invention of the wheel. Damn that round sumbitch.
 
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