Yes OK it was caused by a likely highway killer but ...

Deadly Amish wreck-causer had police record - CBS News: "The man charged in a wreck that killed five Amish farmers in upstate New York had served prison time for stealing a Rochester police cruiser and leading pursuers on a 20-minute chase in 2006, authorities said Wednesday." We always cast these grizzly deaths as tragic accidents. They are no accidents. Nor do they depend on tracking down a person's driving record. Cars and trucks and vans are lethal instruments. They operate at a power that can kill at any speed. They depend on fallible people to operate them. They are a stage of history that we need to move beyond, like war and sexual abuse, like bullying and the sort of politics they do in Congress. The reason all these things hold sway is the values we freely choose to live by. We are not predestined. Tragic accidents will continue to happen but we need to look always to see when accidents are not accidents at all but are rather predictable results of decisions we have make, individually and corporately, based on the values we choose to live by.

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