[AnimalMuppet]

I agree that we should pay the attention to traffic deaths that the death toll warrants.

But don't call accidental deaths murder. That's the "overheated" part. Murder has a definition, and traffic deaths aren't it.

Even if you are a fervent advocate of traffic safety, this kind of manipulative rhetoric does you no favors. It makes people tune you out as a demagogue.

(Why do I call this "manipulative"? Because it tries to play on peoples' view of the horror of murder to make people realize the horror of traffic deaths. Traffic deaths are horrible, but the technique is still manipulative.)

[lutorm]

Of course it's not technically murder. I interpreted the headline as pointing to the fact that, like murder, traffic deaths are "premeditated" in the sense that we know full well that they will occur but do little to prevent them.