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Police and news media reflexively defend drivers to the point where the language they use is laughable if you aren't of that mindset. Nonsense phrases like "intentional accident" and similar variations are common.

Accident is a nice euphemism for when kids pee their pants, don't use it for when adults crash their cars. The gun community has excised "accidental discharge" from their vocabulary and replaced it with the more accurate "negligent discharge," lets do the same for drivers.

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