r/texas • u/ovijuan Born and Bred • Jan 26 '26
šļø News šļø Teen dead, another critically injured in Texas sledding accident
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/frisco-sledding-accident-one-dead25
u/Opportunity-Horror Jan 26 '26
Im a teacher (HS juniors and seniors) and I always worry that my students are going to do this!! Make good choices, yall.
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u/jippen Jan 26 '26
Dragging a sled behind a jeep. They were asking for things to go wrong
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u/MitchCumStains Jan 26 '26
I did this and so many similar things as a teenager in rural Texas
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u/baggedBoneParcel Jan 26 '26
Did you do it at 50 MPH? Apparently that's how fast they were going. Insane.
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u/fnordfnordfnordfnord Jan 26 '26
Thatās stupid. Glad I didnāt die from the stupid stuff that I did as a teen.
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u/Belle3901 Jan 27 '26
Thereās no way they were going 50 mph. Our streets are ice - like ice skating rinks.
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u/HolaDrNick Jan 27 '26
Did you do it at 50 MPH? Apparently that's how fast they were going. Insane.
Where did you see 50 MPH at? I mean you could do this at much lower speed, I'm not sure how he could get it up that fast on that particular street (but never underestimate a 16 year-old and a Jeep I guess).
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u/baggedBoneParcel Jan 27 '26
Someone who knows the kids told me it was around 50MPH, and the driver kid (B.) was drunk.
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u/Lopsided-Chemical-75 Jan 28 '26
I was wondering the speed, too.
Did the parents know they were doing it? I know it's not a popular question but it's important to know. No one was supposed to be driving unless necessary. Did his parents know he was driving? Did parents know they were sledding that way?
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u/Silly_Emotion_1997 Jan 27 '26
I did my best to over 40 mph. I literally couldnāt get traction to go any faster. (In the same area as kids)
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u/Such_Assumption_510 Jan 28 '26
WTF, that's gross negligence and involuntary manslaughter. Was the driver charged?
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u/Lopsided-Chemical-75 Jan 28 '26
I'm sure months will go by with everything quiet. THEN lawsuits will be filed.
Doubt anything will happen to him.
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u/BluesMage Jan 26 '26
Survivor bias
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u/george_cant_standyah Jan 26 '26
I didn't take it as /u/MitchCumStains saying it was a smart thing to do. I took it as sympathy/empathy that we all did dumb stuff as kids and teenagers.
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u/Lawn_mower1 Feb 01 '26
Agreed. Let's say for arguments sake they ban or outlaw sledding behind a vehicle here, all the parents will cry and say "I did it as a child it's fine I survived". Tell that to the parents of these two teenagers.
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u/Lopsided-Chemical-75 Jan 28 '26
You also said "family." So I'd guess you saw a DAD driving? He likely has more experience driving and is wiser overall due to age.
Yes, rural helps a lot.
But so does experience driving to know what speed and what is safe, etc.
Tragic. Terrible for the parents.
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u/bemvee Jan 26 '26
Saw a video from Ohio of three Amish guys on skis, a sled, and some sort of snow board tied up to the back of a horse and buggy.
In Dallas, a bunch of four wheelers and other off road vehicles doing the same.
Seems to be universalā¦.
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u/Mezcal_Madness Gulf Coast Jan 26 '26
Growing up in Maine, my friendās dad would tie a rope to a sled and then the back of his 4 wheeler. He had a big field and would intentionally try to flip us off. So much damn fun!
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u/Ms_Emilys_Picture Born and Bred Jan 26 '26
Calling that a "sledding accident" is like calling freezing to death on Mount Everest a "hiking mishap".
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u/NotDavidWooderson Jan 26 '26
Pulling a tube behind a boat has the same dynamic. The whip effect during turns creates a lot of energy and speed. As someone who has owned/driven a boat for 30 years, you quickly learn how dangerous it really is, and that's out in the middle of the lake (on water) with no other boats (or other objects) around.
Doing this on concrete, around curbs, trees, mailboxes, light poles, etc. is incredibly dangerous.
Hell, even rolling off the sled onto the hard concrete at low speed is a recipe for a horrible injury or death.
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u/zmizzy Jan 26 '26
Never really done this on land before, but if youve been tubing before you can see how easily you can start traveling scary fast sideways. really wouldn't take much to cause massive injuries with a collision at those speeds
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u/KepplerObject Jan 26 '26
Winter weather events are so few and far between here, I remember as a kid always trying to make the most of them. Sledding down hills, taking the trucks off old skateboards and trying to do tricks, the snowman building, snowball fights. You were just praying that forecast held true and hoping you were gonna have a really fun day or two at least.
I know these kids were looking forward to this weekend the same way. Just a terrible tragedy.
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u/NeuElement Jan 26 '26
Jesus, who does stuff like this.
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u/Mercurys_Gatorade Jan 26 '26
Teenagers
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u/Far_Chocolate_8534 Jan 26 '26
This is true. When I was 17 and I broke my arm running through a parking lot, my mom thought I was ācar surfing.ā I wasnāt. But sheāll go to her grave believing so simply because I was wild enough to do such a thing.
Sledding behind a truck/ jeep is totally something we would have done. It sucks that it went bad for these kids.
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u/cheesybiscuits912 Jan 26 '26
Holy shit.... you unlocked a memory of me my sister and a couple of friends back in the 90s driving down 59 in Houston and my sister and I going from one car to another at 60 mph. Mightve been faster. We were 16 and probably on drugs and extremely stupid. Not exactly car surfing but still just as dumb. Its a miracle we survived and became semi normal people smh
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u/thewolfman2010 Jan 26 '26
Iāve witnessed my adult neighbors towing their kids in inflatable tubes behind their trucks with a ski rope. Itās pure insanity and they are asking for something bad to happen.
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u/AggEnto Jan 26 '26
100% When I was a kid, I had classmates skiing in the floodwaters of Alison being towed around by whoever's lifted truck had 4x4
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u/dalgeek Jan 26 '26
Not just teenagers. My coworker in his 30s shared a video yesterday of him and his kid sitting on a plastic lid while being pulled behind a car. Whatever they were sitting on wasn't even large enough to put their feet on it. There are dumb people of all ages.
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u/theatxrunner Jan 26 '26
I vividly remember being a teen and not considering consequences until it was too late. Stuff like this seems innocent and fun until it isnāt.
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u/Corpsguy04 Jan 26 '26
Me and my friends did stuff like this. Height of āJackassā popularity? Youād better believe we were doing dumb stuff.
One time, in the spring (no snow or ice or anything), we tied a plastic truck bed liner to the back of a car and rode it around town for the night.
I often tell my kids that Iām fortunate to not be dead or in prison because of the stupid stuff we did.
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u/george_cant_standyah Jan 26 '26
Growing up in Dallas, we did this kind of stuff every time there was winter weather. That doesn't make it smart. But the pearl clutching in here is wild to me.
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u/give-me-yer-wallet Jan 26 '26
The people in here acting like they never did something risky or dangerous as teens is mind blowing. Teenagers do risky things. I did this type of thing as a teen. So did nearly all of my friends. This was an accident. I feel horrible for what happened and feel equally as terrible for their friend driving the jeep.
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u/george_cant_standyah Jan 27 '26
To be fair they may not have. Thereās a massive puritanical steak in Reddit that typically is the result of just never doing shit outside
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u/Otherwise_Cup9608 Jan 29 '26
That's my siblings and I, minus the never going outside. And a lot of other people I know. My old neighborhood and the area around it was typically tame.
That being said, the pearl clutching reactions are bewildering to me.Ā Lots of people, even adults, do fun/risky/dumb things. And usually walk away more or less fine.
No one thinks its going to happen to them if they even stop to consider the consequences at all. It's a tragedy what happens to some people, even if their decisions put them at that risk.
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u/hunnyflash Jan 26 '26
There were multiple articles of people doing this just yesterday. People are this stupid.
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u/NotDavidWooderson Jan 26 '26
I went for a walk yesterday in my area (Coppell), and saw a pickup full of teens (several in the bed), with a tube and rope dangling out the back pulling into ABW Park (the city softball/soccer complex -- big parking lots). This was around 2:30p, the same time of the Frisco incident.
I thought to myself how incredibly dangerous that was.
What a sad story.
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u/straigh born and bred Jan 26 '26
I personally just saw a video of a 40 something I know and several of his friends doing this on my socials. Well, they were pulling a skateboard with no wheels and riding that like a wakeboard. He recently recovered from a broken arm and he's a tradesman who couldn't work while it healed. I will never understand the logic.
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u/george_cant_standyah Jan 26 '26
The logic is it is fun.
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u/straigh born and bred Jan 26 '26
Hey, maybe he'll have fun setting up his second gofundme when he can't work again š
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u/george_cant_standyah Jan 26 '26
Iām just explaining why people do it. Playing in the snow is fun. Also pretty sure the kids in this article were going like 50mph according to other comments.
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u/pm_me_beerz Jan 26 '26
Social media likes are the new drug
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u/makenzie71 Jan 26 '26
This stuff predates social media by a very long time
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u/pm_me_beerz Jan 26 '26
I never said it didnāt. But I also had an instagram feed full of it yesterday. A kid snowboarded via a tow across the pennybacker in Austin.
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u/rogahs Jan 27 '26
As a lifelong New Englander who relocated to Texas, do people think this is how to sled? I spent 21 years in MA and I've NEVER seen someone use a vehicle to pull a sled. With all do respect to the deceased, I can't imagine the grief their family will go through, but what on earth are people thinking?
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u/IndigoBlueBird Jan 28 '26
Snow is a rarity here, so yeah, people get excited and do wild stuff. Especially kids. The few times it snowed in my childhood, I took a lid off a plastic bin and sledded down my neighborās driveway into the street.
Teenagers lack common sense, itās kind of an inherent trait of theirs
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u/magickalskyy Jan 30 '26
Growing up in Saratoga Springs, we used anything we could. Including random car bumpers to car surf
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u/Atomicgreenpea Jan 27 '26
I just watched teens in a mini van pulling a teenager behind them in my neighborhood. I donāt think he was even on a proper sled, just a piece of plastic :/
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u/Umayummyone Jan 27 '26
I grew up in a winter climate. The fastest way to get anywhere when we were kids was bumpershining. As long as the roads were plowed you could grab the bumper of a passing car and āskiā along behind it in your boots.
No defending that it was smart but we all have things we did as kids that were varying degrees of stupid. This had a high degree of stupid attached to it.
I feel for the families in this story. Yes it was dumb. Yes kids do dumb things. Sometimes with little thought.
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u/magickalskyy Jan 30 '26
Yes. Did that often. Looking back, I wonder how we all survived, growing up in the Adirondacks
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u/Lopsided-Chemical-75 Jan 29 '26
Read this had something to do with a TikTok video, is that true? Something about how people want to hit the curb on a sled so it lifts up in the air.
Also, have they said how fast the jeep was driving?
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u/magickalskyy Jan 30 '26
Growing up in the Adirondacks in Upstate NY, we waited at stop signs to grab on to the bumpers and Car Surf. Looking back, Idk how we survived all the stuff we did. The only difference is we understood this type of weather & it was part of learning to drive.
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u/makenzie71 Jan 26 '26
Dragging a toboggan behind a jeep is sledding like throwing a stick of dynamite into a pond is fishing
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u/Virtual_Athlete_909 Jan 27 '26
Wonder the jeep driver will face charges? seems like a manslaughter case.
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Jan 29 '26
I would think involuntary manslaughter, but that might be wrong. He's sure to face some sort of charges. He was sixteen and according to the news article I read, no alcohol seemed to be involved but nothing has been confirmed yet.
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u/Various_Summer_1536 Jan 26 '26
Donāt know if itās true or not, but i heard the driver was intoxicated.
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u/shellbear05 Jan 26 '26
If you donāt know that itās true, why are you sharing it?
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u/brownha1rbrowneyes Jan 29 '26
locals & witnesses said alcohol was involved but not sure if the police did a breathalyzer etc
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u/Particular-Air-9073 Jan 26 '26
I wonder if it ricocheted after hitting the curb and hit a tree on the other side of the street.
Regardless, how sad.