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Most teenagers these days are lucky to get a hand-me-down car, if they’re even interested in driving at all. But some kids, through the lottery of birth, are granted pretty much whatever they want, whenever they want, simply by existing. There is no way you can convince us that a 16-year old kid should be driving around in a late-model Mustang GT. That’s a recipe for disaster, as two teenagers from New Mexico found out.
The La Cruces Sun-News reports that the 16-year old driver of the 2007 Ford Mustang GT lost control of his rear-drive sports car, and crashed up and over an innocent Infiniti sedan parked on the street. Both cars are probably totaled, and of course the teenage driver received a slap on the wrist.
16-year old Andrew Brem was at the wheel of the Mustang GT when he was travelling through the 4900 block of Arena drive, allegedly at speeds well above the posted limit. At some point Brem lost control of the Mustang, because let’s be honest, how many of us could have been trusted with a 300+ horsepower Mustang at 16-years old? Thankfully, nobody was hurt, though the accident could have been much worse.
It’s not even that Andrew did something wrong. Rather, he did exactly what you would expect a recently-licensed Mustang GT driver to do -drive too fast, beyond the limits of his budding skills, and the result is at least two totaled cars. Andrew was cited for careless driving, though a more fitting punishment for the young leadfoot would be to put him behind the wheel of a boring hybrid until his 21st birthday.
