How very sad to lose a child at such a young age. There are a lot of "would have and should haves" but that won't bring her back. In the future for other parents when your teen receives their license make sure you as a parent remember to enforce the teen curfew that the city and state have. New licensed teen drivers have a strict curfew and no more than 1 person in the vehicle unless they are family. I was and still extremely strict with my soon to be 17 year old. If you think your teen might have a heavy foot purchase a governor and have someone install it on your car.

You can teach your child everything in the world, but that doesnt mean at every second of the day, those things that you teach are happening. Give her family a break, mistakes happen. I know everyone has done something in there life, even though they were taught it was wrong. Send your prayers to the family. And keep your negative thoughts to yourself. Its too late to analyze her one situation, if anything it is a learning experience. The same mistake could happen to someone else in the future, but all we can do is pray that it doesnt. And pray that her friends and family can get through this terrible tragedy. My heart goes out to them, they are great people, and she was an amazing young lady!!!

I'm with PBlake on this one... I drive this road every single day, and have for years. It's not dangerous when you pay attention, abide by the posted speed limit, and observe the posted warning signs. If you're doing 40 MPH, you're almost ran over because the vast majority of drivers on that road do 50+, stay in the left lane, then try to cut over to the right lane in the curve to turn right on to southbound 35. It is tragic when people die, but people need to take responsibility and be ready to pay for their actions.

"Andrea was speeding and was not wearing a seat belt"

Very sad that she died. Parents do your job and teach your kids things like wear your seat belt, don't speed, and that nothing good happens for a 16 year old out at 11:30 on a school/work night.

The Coroner is busy this week. Last night two women killed in a traffic accident. That makes 6 total killed this week in traffic mishaps.

what i understood from the report is she is not the only one that has had an accident in that area. sounds like there is a design problem or not.

While this is tragic, it could have been avoided. Why was this girl out on a school night at 11:30?

Wait.....wait.... She was speeding, not wearing a seat-belt, not supposed to be driving at night....and it's the fault of the way the road is? It's not at all because she was speeding? It's not at all because she was inexperienced and should not have been driving after dark without a licensed driver? It's a tragedy certainly...but no amount of changes to the road will keep unsafe drivers, safe.

my condolences to the family. Just a quick observation . that curve seems to be missing a superelevated curve based on the speed. engineer could look that over. It will be hard to get one to admit to it. if they soley depend on city contracts. they might be blacklisted. looks like the reverse curves are to close to each other to allow transitions. its hard to tell from the video. They don't need a traffic study. they need a design study. Traffic studies are for traffic patterns , lane capacity and for timing traffic lights. Basically they count cars.