One of the challenges that Kristen has faced over the past year is that many of her friends do not follow the law when it comes to newly licensed drivers and allowing passengers.
For the first six months after a teen driver receives a driver's license, no additional passengers under the age of 21 are allowed to drive with them, unless a parent or other licensed adult (over 21) is in the vehicle with them. Siblings are an exemption or if you are driving someone with a medical emergency. That's the law.
So many of her friends do not follow this law.
It would have been so easy for Kristen not to follow this law, but we are so grateful that she does and that she did the night of her accident. Any passenger riding with her would have been injured and the consequences would have been so much more severe.
Thank you Kristen for being obedient and law-abiding.