As with everyone else, I'd like to know why this gal wasn't practicing in a parking lot somewhere, instead of on the public streets? I also agree that driving simulators like what they have for airplanes is an excellent idea.
And as I am sure I'm not the only one I would like to know WHY there are no charges being pressed against her and/or her mother. In a case like this being as the mother was instructing her daughter in how to drive shouldn't she take some of the responsibility for the crash?