@SuperMouse So, if she gets one by asking her aunt that is good enough? That teaches her the lesson of having to get one on her own? I know you are not the parent in this particular situation, I am not asking you to guess what @gimmedat thinks, but what do you think?
I suggested getting her a new car for two reasons, one, everyone can screw up and have an accident, and as a teenager it is even more par for the course than as an adult. Why did she get a car before? She was such a responsible kid? Just be ause she turned 16? Parents became tired of driving her everywhere? I have no idea of course, just throwing typical reasons out there. I assume there was some insurance that covered part of the loss.
As a parent I think I would get tired of carting my kid around for everything, so even if I thought it was a good lesson to not give her a car after the accident, my own laziness and frustration would win out, plus I think the crash itself would probably teach the lesson that crashes really do happen if you suck at driving and take stupid risks. If I believed she might go one to easily kill herself or others because she did not take the accident seriously, then I would be inclined not to let her drive. If she really did not need a car at school (my school you didn’t need one, probably the majority of students don’t have one) then I would not get her one either.
I wonder if my husband would let his neice drive our Porsches? I doubt it.