Now, reserach sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety confirms that common wisdom, highlighting a strong link between teenage drivers being involved in fatal accidents and having multiple teenages passengers but no adult in the car, truck or SUV.

Families in Franklin County, VA, saw this tragically illustrated when a teenager driving at high speeds lost control while rounding a curve, hit two vehicles, left the roadway and struck a building. One young passenger in the vehicle died, one sustained a traumatic brain injury, and other teens needed treatment for injuries. The girl now faces an involuntary manslaughter charge.

As experienced Virginia personal injury and wrongful death attorneys, we see far too many clients who are victims of crashes just like this one. We cannot let our kids be in a position where they are responsible for these serious injuries or deaths. It is not enough to say there is a law and you can’t do these things. Parents need to be much more vigilant to help prevent their children ending up in a situation like this. These things cannot be undone.

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Mr. Tuggle suffered an episode of incontinence, direct care givers placed him in a bathtub while they cleaned the affected area of the house. Mr. Tuggle was placed under a faucet running scalding water and suffered second- and third-degree burns on his legs, face, buttocks, and arm. Ten days later, Mr. Tuggle was found dead in his bed with scabbed burns. The medical examiner determined that Tuggle died from sepsis and pneumonia secondary to thermal injury. His death was ruled as a direct result of the injuries he sustained on February 8, 2011.
 
According to court testimony, Mr. Tuggle's care givers failed to call 911 or the victim's physician, instead claiming to have called the local hospital's emergency room. The care givers claimed to have received instructions to treat the burns with First Aid ointment. However, hospital policy does not allow personnel to give treatment information over the phone.
 
An investigation by the attorney general's Health Care Fraud and Elder Abuse section revealed that, following the burn incident, Tuggle's care givers had placed him in a van to transport him to the hospital. However, Wagoner ordered the van to return to the group home. Wagoner then examined Mr. Tuggle's injuries and decided to keep him at the group home instead of providing him with emergency medical treatment.