Dept. of Follow-Up: Great American Teen SUV Death Race Still On
Back when Cash for Clunkers was rolling, I wrote my first piece for The Awl about one benefit of the program was how it got SUVs, especially Ford Explorers, off the cheap used car market and thus out of ten driver hands. Since then:
“A southeast South Dakota teen has died after the sport-utility vehicle in which he was riding crashed near Volin, authorities say. VanHorn was a passenger in a 1993 Ford Explorer driven by his cousin, Crystal Ann Marie VanHorn, 19, of Yankton, S.D.”
“The male driver’s Ford Explorer was traveling west on Main Street when it drifted across the center line, went off the road on the left side and crossed a ditch and two lawns. It then went back across the ditch, crossed Main Street again, traveled across two lawns, struck a rock and flipped onto its side…”
“A judge set the trial date for Brandon Hodges, Thursday. The teen was behind the wheel when his Ford Explorer rolled over, killing four of his friends…”