He Let His Little Sister Get Into A Fender Bender In His Car In An Effort To Teach Her A Lesson About Distracted Driving

This 25-year-old guy has a younger sister named Christy, and at 18-years-old, she recently got her driver’s license and is overly confident in her driving abilities.
Even though she has only been driving for around 4 months, she has gotten into the habit of constantly looking down at her phone and having it sit in between her thighs so she can grab it whenever she’d like. As her big brother, he really wants her to quit being a distracted driver.
“It drives us all insane, to be honest, and I and other family members have talked to her about it multiple times. It goes in one ear and out the other,” he explained.
Recently, they both were out together getting groceries, and Christy was driving his car. As per usual, she was distracted nearly the whole time, and when he told her to stop checking her phone, she only quit doing it for a few moments before starting back up again.
In the parking lot, Chirsty began pulling into a spot when she looked down at her phone again. Her brother had had enough of this behavior.
“I noticed that she was about to run into a lantern, and when I was sure she wouldn’t cause damage to other vehicles, I decided to just let her run into it instead of intervening,” he said.
At that moment, Chirsty was shocked and sat still while processing what she had just done. She was silent until her brother asked her if this would teach her to leave her phone alone from then on.
However, Chirsty was angry at her brother and kept asking him why he didn’t let her know about the lantern pole.
She was trying to blame him for the whole thing, but her brother tried to explain to her that if he hadn’t been there, the result would have been the same.

Drobot Dean – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
He tried to teach her that when you are the driver, you are responsible for the safety of everyone in the vehicle.
Still, Chirsty was frustrated with her brother and became even angrier when he told her that she would owe him half of the cost of the damages she caused to his car. It ended up being just under $200 for a broken headlight, bent bumper, and a couple of dents.
“She went completely wild, but I told her that she’s lucky I’m not making her pay for everything since she was driving while being on the phone,” he stated.
Once he found out from his insurance how much they would owe, Christy gave him her portion of the payment almost immediately but was still frustrated because now she wouldn’t be able to afford to go on a trip with her friends as she had planned.
Chirsty still blames her brother for it all and claims that she would have learned her lesson at some point otherwise.
Do you think he was in the wrong to let his sister get into this fender bender? Or do you think it was the right thing to do? Do you think she has learned her lesson and will stop being a distracted driver from here on out?
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