A 14 year old buys a car?!??!

An article here notes that a 14 year old teen was involved in a car accident, where the vehicle rolled over three times and killed two 15 year-old passengers. The 14 year old had recently purchased the car, as a gift for his 15 year old brother.

Let’s see:

• you can’t legally drive in Ontario at 14
• apparently it is quite legal to purchase a car though
• quite legal to license the vehicle
• quite legal to insure the vehicle
• just not legal to drive it

The parents of the teen insist they had no idea he had purchased the car. Maybe the car was a real beater, and he purchased it for $500 from someone. But he had to then use cash (who would take a cheque form a 14 year old?). What if it was a $2000 vehicle? Or even new? How the heck does a 14 year old make a purchase like that without the parents even knowing about it? And where the frak did he park the thing??

Meanwhile, the Premier (Dalton McGuinty) is vowing to ‘look into what, if anything’ they can do to keep unlicensed drivers off the road. Wow…such a bold statement!

This just boggles my mind…