Have you heard about the 15-yr old girl in Ocala, FL whose parents allowed her to drive a race car?  Here’s the typical story of how anybody, no matter how smart or dumb they are, can be a parent, and what their thought processes are.

In her first time in a race car, she crashed on the 2nd lap & died.  Her family said it was her hobby, she loved it, and that it was a freak accident.

Losing control of a powerful race car that you obviously can’t control when you’ve never driven one & slamming into the wall isn’t a “freak accident” by any stretch of the definition.  I would say it was probably expected, and I’d call it a “freak accident” if it didn’t happen the 1st time.

Allowing a 15-yr old girl to get involved in a level of racing where something like this could happen, much less getting involved in any level of racing, was a bad move by her parents, which obviously was made either out of ignorance of the possible consequences, or sheer stupidity in blowing it off as though it couldn’t possibly happen to THEIR daughter.

Also, to have a hobby, it’s typically something you have to do more than once, so calling it her hobby at her 1st race was not accurate either.

This is the typical mindset of parents nowadays.  They think nothing tragic could ever happen to their kids and that the risks of everything are minimum and that unfortunate consequences happen to others, who are losers.  On the flip side, they overly worry about things that are of little to no risk.