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Girl Kills Mother During Driving Lesson In Church Parking LotNEWPORT, Ky. — I have stated my opinion on women drivers multiple times on this site and every time I do, someone inevitably gets angry with me and I get hate mail. But I am in a good mood this morning so I will bite my tongue and not use this tragic story to rail on you females and how, by and large, you all are horrible, horrible drivers.

Kimberly Riggs, 40, and her 15-year-old daughter had just left church services at the Newport Church of God on Sunday when Riggs wanted her daughter to practice her driving skills in the parking lot. That’s when an unbelievable chain of events occurred, leaving Riggs dead and her daughter unlikely to get behind the wheel of a car for a very long time.

According to Newport police, Riggs was standing outside of a car in the parking lot as her daughter sat in the driver’s seat. Witnesses said the car suddenly lurched backward and the open door hit Riggs, knocking her to the ground. The car continued going in reverse as it turned left onto Keturah Street and stopped. The car then accelerated forward into the church parking lot, turned sharply left and plowed through a fence, hit a tree, cut through a backyard and hit the rear of a house. The vehicle then reversed through the yard and back into the church parking lot where the it made a sharp left, completed a 180 degree turn and struck Riggs, who had been chasing after the car, pinning her against a fence.

“She couldn’t speak but she could just barely breathe by holding her sternum,” said Church of God pastor, Rusty Woolum. “We were trying to keep her calm, telling her that help was on the way, that we were there with her.” Riggs was taken to University Hospital, but sadly she was pronounced dead, leaving behind two daughters and a grandson. Her daughter was treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital for minor facial injuries.

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  • blubberdong

    The kid was posting “omg cant beleive im realy learning to drive” to Facebook at the time of the accident.

  • JGo555

    Oh dear God, I hope the daughter didn’t do it on purpose.
    And while I AM a female driver, I hope this girl NEVER gets behind the wheel… wtf? She couldn’t stop the car but go forwards & backwards?Was it a stick?

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

    I am not surprised at the fact that the 15-year-old female couldn’t figure out the difference between the accelerator and the brake on multiple occasions, or never thought to just turn off the car, but I do not get why Kimberly was outside of the car.

    When I was first teaching my kid how to drive, there was no way in hell I would have let him get behind the wheel by himself. The only thing I can think of is that she was helping guide her daughter out of a parking space or something,

  • JohnQknowitall

    Next time please try to be more balanced and rounded with the women drivers videos. Another video with a gear stripping soundtrack would be perfect.

  • Sam

    Guess she should have been paying attention to her driving instead of posting on Facebook.

  • JohnQknowitall

    Not blaming the victim (and children mature at their own pace), but how could this mother believe her daughter was ready to drive anything motor propelled?

  • Sam

    Unlikely to be a stick shift – the engine would have more than likely stalled and cut out on even her first attempt at turbo boosting over the church.

  • JohnQknowitall

    I think this girl is sentenced to a prison called guilt ridden emotional hell. This just sounds like one of those stupid things a couple of people might laugh about decades down the road if nobody died.

  • Sam

    Morbid, as a woman i wholeheartedly agree with you that a lot of women do NOT know how to drive. The amount of times i find myself cursing at someone on the road only to notice after passing them that it was, in fact, yet another woman behind the wheel. Well, or some dude in a BMW. Apparantly you have to pass a driving ineptitude test before they’ll allow you to buy a BMW.

  • Cassy_Again

    I don’t need to send hate male. I’ll let the stats speak for themselves:

    TYPE OF VIOLATION RATIO M:F
    Reckless driving 3:41
    DUI 3:09
    Seatbelt violations 3:08
    Speeding 1:75
    Failure to yield 1:54
    Stop sign/signal violation 1:53

    Stats from the early 2000s:

    Total crash involvements for women: 14,633
    Total crash involvements for men: 33,733

    Furthermore, men are still more likely to speed, drive while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and be involved in violent incidents of road rage. You’re far more likely to die in a car crash caused by a male driver than one caused by a female driver.

    And you can see from the former list, men are by far more ditzier and cause more mayhem on the road because they don’t stop at stop signs or yield when they’re supposed to nearly as often as women. They also can’t figure out how to fasten a seat belt.

    Perhaps you can find more recent stats that show a different trend, though. I believe it’s highly likely women are becoming more aggressive.

  • Sam

    The amount of times this girl changed gears and directions almost makes me wonder if she was aiming for something.

  • slavesher

    I’ll admit, I did kill a few things while learning to drive (bird, rabbit..) but normally after messing up once you STOP, get out and try again tomorrow. I cant figure out why she kept going..and going..and going.

    I personally have found the bigger the vehicle you drive, the less you notice the “little things” you hit. Also lights and sirens tend to move the more intelligent animals out of the way.
    BTW if you see an ambulance with dead rabbits and birds on the front, that will be me.

  • CT

    As my son says, “they drive like a grill” (translates to girl for those you not accustomed to 4 year old speak). Teaching em young.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

    Males get into more crashes because they are trying to pass the shitty female drivers.

  • http://tothechest.com Pete Puma

    I think you might have reversed your stats a bit…a clerical error. That said, I like the way chicks’ tits look when they’re wearing seatbelts.

  • Ashley_xo

    This may be completely random.. but did anyone else notice that the girl in the blue shirt has an ankle bracelet on??

  • Gee

    The video was funny… I just don’t understand all the different directions she took. I was driving at the age of 14 and had very clear concept of how it worked.

  • Ashley_xo

    Is that the other daughter?? Not that it matters, this story is just SAD all the way around.. that girl is going to be fucked in her head for life– Feel awful for all involved to the fullest extent.. I remember my Grandfather teaching me how to drive when I was 15, if I would have had some kind of mishap like this I probably would have killed myself afterwards.. no joke.

  • newstarshipsmell

    2 words: Autonomous Cars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001650598384 Robert L. Williams

    Here is a thought. Why would you chase a car?

  • EveryVillainIsLemons

    I always wondered where Christine went.

  • blubberdong

    Sources must be cited or they will be considered irrelevant. On second thought, even that wouldn’t matter here.

  • sam1211

    jeeze So because I was so scared to drive I didnt learn until I was 20(i know pathetic, I loved my bike), :S But when I first tried if shit scared me and I needed a break I would pull over and turn it off! even if it ment on side of highway with people honking at me because I was slowing down. So I just can’t wrap my mind around this being an “accident”.

  • http://www.hillbillyhotdogs.com/ unimpeachablegoodguy

    DAMN WOMEN DRIVERS!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Silcox-Martin/1460419094 Sarah Silcox Martin

    I don’t think there is one gender that has the record of worst driver. For instance, the women drivers at my son’t preschool were HORRIBLE. I used to rant and rave at them at least once a day. They couldn’t understand the basic principles of the pick up line and almost hit my car multiple times. Idiots. All of them. However, my husband who is male is one of the worst drivers. He drives slow and doesn’t tail but he cannot merge to save his life. He will slam on his breaks when trying to merge onto any highway and nearly cause a 10 car pile up in the process. And he can’t parallel park. I, on the other hand, a woman, can parallel park and can merge like nobody’s business.

  • newstarshipsmell

    For those of you struggling to visualize the accident, here’s a rough guess based on the article (which identified the middle house by address as the one struck) with reverse in red, drive in green.

  • SillyCynic

    It wouldn’t be a stick. Being 28 now, I’ve only driven an automatic for 2 years…and honestly it’s a nice change of the previous 10 years (before that) of driving a stick shift.
    I’ve taught about 10-15 guys (while I was in Iraq, the first time) how to drive a Chevy Luv pickup that was a stick shift. But for the life of me, I could NOT teach my little sister how to drive a little ford focus stick shift. We were also in a church parking lot, she couldn’t even figure out how to work both of her feet at the same time to make the car go forward. She couldn’t figure out reverse. (Had to lift a knob on the shifter to put it in reverse.)

  • ShelbySP

    You are SO RIGHT. I’ve never seen anyone driving a BMW…well. I always assumed it was because only drug dealers have them around here. People with real money buy cars that are actually nice, not ones that Europeans use as taxis.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

    I agree totally.most women drive like crap, my MIL owned a driving school, and the other day she gave me a ride home and was putting her glasses on at a red light. It turned green, so she let the car go forward a bit, then tapped the brakes pretty hard, right in the middle of the intersection, to adjust the glasses! Just about got rear ended!! But my husband drives terribly. Brakes hard. Every. Single. Time..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

    Wow, this is 10 miles from me… Poor lady..

  • Athena

    It depends on how you define “good driving”. Women tend to define it as
    “safer”… and women ARE safer drivers, generally speaking. That goes
    undisputed. But I define “good” as technically proficient. The world
    of racing proves – without a doubt – that men are, generally speaking,
    the more technically proficient drivers. Of course, in the interest of full disclosure, I am a technically proficient yet not especially safe driver with a reckless driving conviction (pled down to a Negligent Driving in the Second Degree).

    Exhibit A: Ken Block, San Francisco (Watch it. It’s cooler than hell.)

  • Athena

    German-made luxury vehicles are actually nice. Perhaps you’ve forgotten that they are consistently spanking the rest of the luxury vehicle world? BMW and Audi are the world’s best-selling luxury brands, with Mercedes not far behind.

  • Athena

    Two more: Maximum Overdrive.

  • newstarshipsmell

    Well we can go that route, or we can go the Terminator route, either way, the machines will win in the end so what’s the difference, really?

  • LuvsHorror

    Oh my god, I can’t believe how clueless some people are! For the record, I am a very good driver, in drivers Ed in high school I scored highest on the written test, a 105, and a perfect score on the driving simulator. No accidents, no tickets.

  • LuvsHorror

    Absolutely, and you would think she’d have some idea about how well her daughter could handle a car.

  • LuvsHorror

    Or some old dude in a hat…

  • Digited

    Ahhh, now that makes sense. After looking at that, I’m more and more convinced it was a Toyota.

  • Chinchillazilla

    Haha, that reminds me of the first time I ever drove. I was 14 (we were on a farm), and I was going MAYBE 5 MPH. I see a turtle in the road. I’m going “don’t hit the turtle, just go around the turtle”. I slowly approach him and realize, oh man, I’m gonna hit that turtle. Do I brake? No, I just panic and turn the wheel and run off the road.

    It was the slowest, most boring accident of all time. But the turtle and the car were both unharmed, so that was all right.

  • Chinchillazilla

    Don’t feel bad. I’m learning to drive now (not RIGHT now, lol), and I’m 22. I never felt I was mature and responsible enough to drive until this year.

  • newstarshipsmell

    Driving is easy. It’s the avoiding all the lunatics on the road that’s the hard part.

  • Athena

    Touche, old friend. Touche.

  • Sam

    I would actually love a BMW 6 series – but i’m too afraid that somehow getting behind the wheel of one would cause a selective stroke and remove all my driving abilities.

  • ShelbySP

    Maybe the niceness short circuits your driving abilities? Maybe you get in and you’re like “AW SHIT SON This car is so nice I don’t even know how to drive anymore!!” I dunno, I’ve only ever been a passenger in a BMW taxi in Greece, and riding in a Taxi in Greece is the LEAST pleasant or luxurious thing ever. I thought I was gonna poop and die.

  • LilHoney

    Another reason mens insurance is higher Speeding around those so called shitty women drivers and possibly getting into an accident, therefore raising those statistics that Prove men aren’t as good as they think they are behind the wheel. Just sayin! lol

  • LilHoney

    I had something similar happen when My Daughter was toddler age, I stopped got out & checked to see if it was ok got a box from My trunk & he tagged along on our Mommy-Daughter day & we ended up taking him home for about 2-3weeks then found another turtle in our yard kept them together for a week. Then we turned them loose in the field out back from my house. :)

  • Sam

    Hahaha – i used to live in Greece and that sounds sooooo familiar. Not only do they not give a fuck about traffic rules there, taxi drivers also while away the time between fares with drinking copious amounts of raki (ouzo’s grown up brother). Thought you were being safe by taking a taxi instead of driving your own drunk ass home? Think again.

  • ShelbySP

    Oh my god. I loved Greece, it’s the most beautiful place withe the best food in the world, but the driving scarred me for life. I guess that’s why I can’t appreciate a nice German automobile to this day.

  • takurospirit

    That’s why I always wondered about the bad women driver stereotype. If men are better drivers I was confused as why their insurance rates are higher. I think men think you’re a bad driver if you don’t make a reckless high speed lane change. Or something. I know I’m a “bad” driver. As I’m always running late, so I’m always speeding to work at 80-90MPH. Where, btw, I still get tailgated and passed over and over on the tollway. People are crazy around here. I had to borrow my mom’s car to get to work one morning, so she sat in the passengers side so she could drive it back, and she was TERRIFIED. lol.

  • takurospirit

    I was wondering that as well. Why would you teach a child, or anyone for that matter, how to drive from the exterior of the vehicle? I also lost control of the car and literally managed to stop the car about a foot away from crashing through the front of my parents’ house on my first driving lesson. But I was 11. And dad was sitting beside me, albeit drunk.

  • slavesher

    I think that could possibly be the most pathetic thing i’ve ever heard….LOL. Turtles make the strangest sound when you run them over. Like running over a tupperware bowl.

  • CT

    Best avatar to date.

  • onlyme356

    It sounds as if she was panicking and completely lost control and reasoning.

  • Abroad

    Now I am feeling car-sick and a bit nauseous from all the burning rubber in that video. :-P

  • MyHovercraftIsFullofEels

    This same thing happened in my town about a year ago. An girl let her younger friend drive in the church parking lot. The younger floored it and drove through a fence and into the Los Angeles River. Which is totally encased in concrete for those of you not familiar with the river. The car then landed on top of the younger girl who was thrown from the vehicle. The older was charged with manslaughter.
    http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sunland-car-into-storm-channel,0,7834898.story Anyways this reminded of that. They should ban church parking lots, they are obviously the cause.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamie-Hart/1212664003 Jamie Hart

    too damn funny

  • http://www.facebook.com/steve.p.davis.1 Steve Paige Davis

    if the mother has just stood still she wouldn’t have had to change directions so many times.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Leashaness Alicia Lynee’

    That bitch murdered her mother. Are the police fucking stupid?? Lock her as up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/naomi.luciano.18 Naomi Luciano

    My mother was too muchof a nerve struck person took me driving at age 12 for the first time on an empty lot and because she was so nervous she made me nervous almost in my 30s now and i still refuse to drive not sure if it was the ditch i almost drove into or her lack of calmness but driving still scares me…

  • deniz zen

    WOMEN AS IT IS ARE ROTTEN DRIVERS , GIRLS ON THE OTHER HAND ARE IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEAGUE THEY SIMPLY MUST NOT BE PERMITTED TO DRIVE PERIOD
    AIRHEAD WITH PATHETHIC DRIVING SKILLS MAKES A DEADLY COMBINATION A THREAT TO THE PUBLIC

  • Andyman

    Agreed – but when us guys fuck up (and it does rarely happen) we fuck it up a lot worse. On the other hand, women are generally more inclined to bump into shit pulling into and out of the garage, parking spots, etc. Like my ex bitch who was pulling my truck and trailer managed to not only jackknife the trailer into one side of my truck but both sides. If you must know why she was driving my truck and trailer it was because I was too cheap to buy a second mower for my other house and she was going over there to cut it. $3000 later I have my truck fixed and a mower at the other house and she it history (but for other reasons.)

  • Andyman

    That was my first thought too Morbid! lol.

  • Andyman

    I wonder if this was the first training lesson too.

  • CT

    Tell that to the 9 little kids that got run over yesterday by some old dude who shouldn’t even have a fucking license IMO. If you are so old that your teeth have fallen out on their own – you should have to automatically lose your license.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

    An elderly man with a little dementia is about the only time a male is on par with a female, of any age, in regards to driving skills.

  • CT

    Morbid, you are officially on my bad side.

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

    That’s the side I usually find myself with most people. I don’t mind… it’s like the cool side of the pillow.

  • CT

    Or the wrong side of the toilet paper. My husband doesn’t seem to care either, if he doesn’t care, you’ve obviously got nothing to worry about. Though for some reason Texas Ranger seems to think he should be worried about my sanity. Mention a crow bar once and you are a crazy bitch forever. WTF.