It’s No Accident: Advocates Want to Speak of Car ‘Crashes’ Instead
New York Times - Monday, May 23, 2016 - By Matt Richtel
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Roadway fatalities are soaring at a rate not seen in 50 years, resulting from crashes, collisions and other incidents caused by drivers.Just don’t call them accidents anymore.That is the position of a growing number of safety advocates, including grass-roots groups, federal officials and state and local leaders across the country. They are campaigning to change a 100-year-old mentality that they say trivializes the single most common cause of traffic incidents: human error.
