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So sad. My sympathies to the family. I hope the kids recover.

Hindsight is 20/20… Nice comment Einstien!

Certainly a tragedy for all…

Ummm…Maybe your not very smart 16 year olds drive everyday!

Yeah…………and they’re horrible drivers

Let’s not start criticizing the poor girl. I am sure that she is traumatized enough already. My prayers are going out to the family. Please know that the Lord is watching over you.

Well the driving age needs to change to 18 minimum. The maturity level just is not there at age 16 to be controlling a deadly weapon. My daughter turns 16 next month and it scares me to death. Three of her 16 year old friends have already been in accidents in the last few months …..one a rollover on hwy 10. I believe it is like putting a loaded gun in the hand of a child. Then throw in the smart phones with the music, texting, phone calls etc then it becomes really scary. You can lay the rules down all you want, but they will be broke. Not looking forward to this

My daughter is a 16 year old driver. I have trained her to be a very cautions and aware driver. She’s been driving for 8 months now and not even a close call. She doesn’t call while driving or text or change radio stations. Other drivers who are older, tailgating her, cutting her off, BTW @scared…she’s also a master sharp shooter with the Junior NRA

My thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family of the victim. Another tragic accident that didn’t have to happen if only the driver would have been paying attention. How many more people have to lose there lives before people wake up and realize that when your driving a vehicle thats all your doing and all your concentration needs to be centered on that one job. The State also needs to wake up and make the punishment fit the crime, right now all you’ll get if you kill someone is a misdemeanor and a fine that is less than if you were caught fishing over the limit, well unless alcohol is involved then it’s a felony.

Yup seat belts save lives. NOT. Its funny how when their are car accidents that when people die they say straight out that they weren’t wearing their seat belts, but when they die and they were wearing their seat belts its not mentioned at all. Hey guess what seat belts kill just as many if not more than non seat belt accidents. I will never wear a seat belt again in my life. I have way too many friends and family members killed because they were wearing them and the cops and doctors said that if they weren’t they would be alive and any where from a few weeks to year or so they would be moving around great. The seat belt law is nothing but a controversy for the government to make more money and take more of your rights away from us. Also cars now a days are so much safer and with all of the air bags and junk like that a seat belt shouldn’t have to be worn at all. Hell its my right not to wear a helmet while riding on a motorcycle which is so much unsafer than a car, but yet in a really safe car i have to be wearing a seat belt, next thing they will make us do is wear a helmet while in a vehicle.

A 16 year old fell asleep at the wheel (at 10:30 AM!) crossed the center line and killed 2 motorcyclists – this has to stop.
These aren’t “accidents” – these are innocent people being slaughtered

Logan Birkholz is my grandson. This is a very tragic situation, but I don’t believe pointing fingers will help anyone. It won’t bring his stepmother back and it won’t heal him any quicker.

Most of us, at one point or another, are guily of inattentive driving, and are lucky to not have hurt anyone. This poor girl has to live with the knowledge that her actions left a family of small children with no mother, stepmother, and wife. She will never outlive the pain of what she has done. My thoughts are will her too.

My thoughts are WITH (not will) her too.

“”Most of us, at one point or another, are guily of inattentive driving, and are lucky to not have hurt anyone”"

Sorry, but I disagree. I am always attentive behind the wheel, and those who blow-through stop signs and slaughter other people, text and drive while traveling 70 mph, and do their makeup on the freeway are not “less lucky” than me. They are selfish and dangerous.

“so many people in the car with a new driver”

Her mom and her sibling – doesn’t seem like too many to me…

Again, we don’t know details. We don’t know what distracted her. We don’t know if there was a tree branch covering the stop sign or if her mom was talking to her. We don’t know squat about the details.

She was most likely getting in her 30 hours of required behind the wheel, she probably only had a permit. Sounds like a tragic accident including the horror the 16 year old will endure.

Well, Jill, you are fortunate to have never sneezed repeatedly, been distracted by a loud child, saw some flashing lights across the street, thought you may have seen a deer standing in the ditch, changed the radio station, had a cell phone ring, or see some kids playing with a ball on a sidewalk and wonder if they’re going to dart out into traffic, driven past an accident or just someone pulled over by the police, or been exhausted. I have not been that lucky.

wasthe people in the dodge caravan both named Bethany lewis. my prayers go to the children

Logan is my Godson, I have known him (and his mother & father a very long time). All we can ask is for thoughts an prayers to be sent to the family. I pray that you are all OK. You are all very loved!

GRANDMA SMEBY I am so sorry for all involved. I feel your pain deep in my heart. As my son and I where detoured around this scene I thought only to come out on durant and 9 the same way this young lady was traveling. AT that point I started to cry and felt sick to my stomach. These tragedies affect bystanders who help.first responders passers by as myself. All involved. So please save the finger pointing and negative comments. THESE FAMILYS NEED PRAYERS AND SUPPORT PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR POSITION.

I’m not sure it’s really appropriate to be releasing the names of the people involved in this tragic accident.

The average comment section has way too many negative people…. it seems almost irresponsible to me to make the names of the victims and the poor girl who managed to devastate another family with a few seconds of inattention available so that people can look them up and possibly harrass them.

That said, my heart goes out to everyone involved. What an awful day for these two families.

Very true i live right where the accident took place it is hard to see the stop sign it is covered by trees and tall grass so i think its the countys fault for not doing their job correctly and makin sure the signs are visible for people to see. Very sorry for the loss my prayers go out to the family.

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Krissy will be missed. She was a great friend and wonderful mom. BIG lesson for the 16 year old. Hope she can overcome and learn from this.

I’m sorry you have suffered an accident. I have been in accidents too, but I don’t paint the world through such a broad brush. New drivers have to learn how to drive under all conditions…and mine has been learning with the presence of her brother as I’m not leaving him at home every time we go somewhere. She drove 7 hours on the highway while we were moving, should I have left him in one state while we were traveling to another? You are in a wheelchair due to ONE PERSON not paying attention to the road, NOT my child and not this child. Was it even a teen driver who hurt you?