Stella Grace Bright, 16, daughter of top
Lowe's exec dies after crashing her PORSCHE
at 3:20am 'while speeding' close to family's
$2.6M mansion by Trump golf course
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Will Potter
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/10/2023 2:56:59 AM
The daughter of a senior Lowe's executive died early Saturday after plowing her Porsche supercar into a tree - allegedly while speeding.
Stella Grace Bright, 16, who has a twin sister called Olivia, was driving her 2014 Porsche 911 near Lake Norman, North Carolina when she flew off the road and ended up in a rock landscaping wall, which killed the teen and hospitalized two others in her car.
One of the two passengers was in the back of the Porsche, even though it is a two-seater which is not supposed to hold rear-seat passengers. Bright and the other front seat passenger were both in seat belts.
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"...by Trump golf course" might have been an interesting piece of information in the article, but in the headline? Regardless, there's a whole lot wrong with this picture.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dannee 9/10/2023 4:44:46 AM (No. 1553024)
Why try to link Trump to the death of a young girl driving a hot Porsche. There were three people in a two passenger car.
Giving a 16 year old the equivalent of a race car to use at 3 am is pleading for disaster.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 9/10/2023 4:50:49 AM (No. 1553026)
I blame the parents, giving a 16yoa a car like that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mifla 9/10/2023 4:58:37 AM (No. 1553029)
Porsche, 3 am, - driven by a 16 year old.
Reminds me of a quote by P J O'Rourke.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 9/10/2023 6:28:17 AM (No. 1553054)
Darwin Award
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
vrb8m 9/10/2023 7:06:19 AM (No. 1553063)
Hack Smith will issue another indictment.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 9/10/2023 7:14:30 AM (No. 1553065)
Cleanup on aisle 12
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jj1319 9/10/2023 7:18:21 AM (No. 1553067)
A 911 isn't a particularly desirable car for a teenage girl. I'm guessing it's a hand-me-down from dad.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Californian 9/10/2023 7:52:58 AM (No. 1553079)
That's a fast sports car but not a super car.
Anyway:
16 year old
Porsche
3:20 AM
Wasn't her first time driving stupid. Just her first time getting killed doing it.
Parents 100% at fault. Will sue Porsche and the guys who built the road.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MissNan 9/10/2023 7:58:18 AM (No. 1553082)
RIP young lady.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ronbet 9/10/2023 7:58:26 AM (No. 1553083)
The Trump golf course in Charlotte is about five miles away from where the wreck occurred. There is no connection between the two! It is only referenced in the headline and the story to get more people to click the story.
Just amazing how the media hates Trump, but cannot live without the ratings they get from talking about him!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/10/2023 8:07:53 AM (No. 1553086)
A 16 year old girl that needed parents.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NancyD 9/10/2023 8:09:59 AM (No. 1553088)
This is every parent’s nightmare. I don’t care about the car she was driving, it was 10 years old not a 100k+ car. Out at 3am is my worry. Where are the parents of the girls she was with and her own parents? Maybe they snuck out? Many 16yr olds do that, but making the bad decisions can have fatal consequences. Just terrible and extremely sad.
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Sometime, making poor choices costs everything.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 9/10/2023 8:31:56 AM (No. 1553104)
In NYS, you must be 18 to even drive after dark by yourself. Ca is the land of NUTS. not honey.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 9/10/2023 8:36:06 AM (No. 1553107)
Was she old enough to drive at night?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 9/10/2023 8:45:21 AM (No. 1553113)
A 911 of ANY year is a handful if pushed, as apparently this obviously unskilled 16 year old girl was doing when she lost control. As a rear-engined vehicle with a nearly 50/50 front/rear weight balance (possibly slightly biased to the rear of the vehicle) it require a very experienced driver to avoid "fish-tailing" when pushed through even a slight turn, leading to a spin and crash. In the hands of a skilled driver, this rearward weight bias is an advantage in both cornering and braking, but a 911 is not a car for neophytes. Once the rear end of the car gets out of line, the car is almost impossible to get under control and requires very delicate, but deliberate driver compensation to prevent it from "swapping ends." Take it from me; I know from sad experience. Anyone who gives a sixteen year old permission to rive a 911 without proper prior training in the hands of a professional driver is asking for trouble at least, and, as in this instance complicit in the disastrous outcome. "Negligent entrustment" of that 911 is an actionable tort.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/10/2023 8:59:36 AM (No. 1553130)
They mention a Trump Golf resort being "Nearby"..they do not mention that there are also several BIG Name "Performance" driving schools..."Nearby". They also do not mention whether the girl or her family had ever attended either of them. Nor do they mention the Biden family having several Porsches.
(The first cars I ever drove were porsches, both my father and mother had them, a 250C, and a 356. My mother even raced Pikes Peak one year. They taught me to drive by age 10 in parking lots, the 1st roads I drove on were twisty/turny park roads in Hocking hills at age 11...I blame my younger brother for not being able to grow up into legal driving age with a Porsche to use. He was the 3rd kid, There is only backseat room for 2...when he was born from then only the family cars were station wagons, with a Cool Factor of....Zero)
There are a LOT of rich kids who die at 16yo, after parents gift them a "Cool Car", currently Mustangs, Challengers, Camaros, corvettes,big motor jeeps and SUV's...and EV's that are even faster than those.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ebenezer 9/10/2023 9:17:46 AM (No. 1553141)
Matthew 25:13--"Be on guard, for you know neither the day nor the hour"
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 9/10/2023 9:31:06 AM (No. 1553147)
Sad, but it happens all the time with kids who think they're invincible.They can wrap an old Chevy around a tree just as quick as a porsche.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/10/2023 9:55:45 AM (No. 1553169)
A 16 year old girl was not out at 3AM doing charity work. If I had to guess, she was speeding to get home before she got caught and lost control.
When I was 16, we couldn't be on the road after 10PM unless we were returning home from a job or school function. But those laws don't apply to the wealthy and well connected.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
red1066 9/10/2023 9:56:26 AM (No. 1553170)
Everything about this story is just wrong. A sixteen-year-old and a Porsche is just a wrong combination. A sixteen-year-old out with friends past three AM driving a Porsche is another wrong combination. Four people in a Porsche that seats two is another wrong combination. I'm guessing booze was involved as well. While the Porsche 911 can go fast, it's hardly a supercar. The mention of the accident occurring by a Trump golf course is included for only one reason, and it's political. Trump lives in the leftists and media heads rent free.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 9/10/2023 10:19:19 AM (No. 1553192)
Life is all about choices. Speeding at 3:20 am - bad choice. And my bet is that alcohol or drugs were involved.
Rich kids too often are given everything except a chance to develop some common sense.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/10/2023 10:37:12 AM (No. 1553212)
Another life of privilege is gone. Shame.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/10/2023 10:56:32 AM (No. 1553228)
Bright? Not so much. That also goes for the parents who would give a sixteen-year-old a 911 Porsche. But hey, it's not my family or my money. The road across Lake Norman is perfectly straight. What a shame, it's a beautiful car. Next indictment for Trump, dumping oil on the road, who else could have done it?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
curious1 9/10/2023 1:29:51 PM (No. 1553331)
Apparently the poor child's (and she was still a child) parents had never learned that parents should never ruin their children by making their lives too easy while they grow up. The parents have now paid a high price for their ignorance. (Assuming they actually loved the child. Some don't.)
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
smokincol 9/10/2023 2:35:12 PM (No. 1553361)
too bad ... but another example of a child of "privilege" who stepped over the line and listened to the Devil when he told her she could live forever if she listened to him and not people who really cared about her, which, from all appearances weren't her mother and father but
casting aspersions aside it will be interesting to see the toxicology report when the Medical Examiner completes his autopsy and declares whether there was alcohol or drugs or alcohol & drugs involved
1 dead, 2 injured and those 2 will live this incident over and over again throughout their lives -- too bad.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 9/10/2023 7:06:38 PM (No. 1553564)
I got my first 911 at age 35, because before that I couldn't afford one. But, I had the chance to drive similarly powerful and fast cars when in HS or college, and never so much as scratched the paint. But friends and I had a failed Florida land development with lots of sand/clay roads and some blacktop roads with essentially
no traffic for miles to learn on. We learned to drive fast where running off the road meant only a slide in
sand and maybe hitting some 1" diameter shrubs and some sagebrush...wouldn't even scratch the paint.
Took me a while to get the hang of handbrake 180 turns, but learned them. And how to control a slide.
It all did me in good stead when I got my 911 - and my early 1980s model is of the early "bite you" variety
if you don't know what you are doing. Later models are dramatically 'dumbed down' making them less prone to biting a ham fisted driver - but still a poor choice for a young girl.
And in later years, I spent days on a race track with instructors in new 911s to learn to really drive one well.
Too bad Daddy didn't put her on the track with an instructor and save her life. She could have learned a lot.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
broken01 9/11/2023 7:48:06 AM (No. 1553792)
What was this young girl doing to have to drive at 3:20am? I thought in NC that you have to be 18 to drive after 9pm. I feel this is another set of parents letting their irresponsible teenager (a daughter in this case) have what she wants without the consequences scenario. Also why put PDJT in this story. TDS perhaps. Still though it is a tragedy when your child dies and my condolences to the family.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
cheeflo 9/11/2023 3:04:08 PM (No. 1554075)
Very sad for her loved ones. All I can do is shake my head.
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