For a teen, crashing your parents' car has to rank as the worst possible thing that can happen to you. Crashing it on the way to prom has to be icing on the worst-case scenario cake. For two New Jersey teens, it was just the start of prom night.

On May 6, Edward Fengya and Reno D'Agostini were headed to Long Beach Island for prom at the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Sciences when the Lincoln Towncar they were in rolled off the Garden State Parkway. According to New Jersey State Police, neither 17-year-old was injured and no other cars were involved, but the Towncar was no longer getting them to prom in style. Or at all.

State Trooper on the scene Chris Jones said that the crash was likely the result of the driver overcompensating after realizing another car was in his blind spot while trying to change lanes. Investigating Trooper Charles Garrison decided no citations were necessary, but that still left them stranded in white tuxes on the side of the road.

So Trooper Jones showed some true public service and decided to give them a ride.

"I just thought it would be something nice for them to deal with after crashing mom's car. What's more traumatic than that?" said Jones. "They spun out, no one's really ready for that, especially at a young age, just getting their license."

The two boys were grateful to accept a police escort and were given a paparazzi-style greeting by fellow prom-goers when they showed up in a police cruiser, which probably helped distract them from the fact that one of them had just crashed their mom's car. If we are to believe New Jersey mobster stereotypes, showing up in a cop car is likely among the coolest things that can happen to a teenage boy. And even though I would personally be filled with dread to tell my parents about totaling the Lincoln, I'm sure their parents felt nothing other than relief at the fact that nobody was injured (you can always be mad tomorrow!). 

So, by the start of prom, some parents were reassured that their kids were alive and well, a couple of boys got to look like total rockstars in front of their classmates, and a state trooper got to makes somebody's day, which is almost certainly a lot more fun than ruining somebody's with a speeding ticket.