Yo Bikies,
Today, I saw four articles about traffic crashes in the Wisc State
Journal. Not once did I see them referred to as "accidents." I wasn't
specifically looking for that, but it just kind of dawned on me that,
yeah, maybe we are making a little progress. At least semantically.
I went to the Traffic Justice Institute warm-up sessions of the
Pro-Bike/Walk conference and this continues to be a source of major
irritation among folks looking for a little truth-in-advertising
about car crashes. The upshot of the day-long session was: "Where's
the outrage?" We're losing a Viet Nam War's worth of American's every
*year* and it is just business-as-usual.
Ok, it's just semantics, but it does at least *semantically* level
the playing field. And it ends the journalistic presumption that
pedestrians and bicyclist (as well as automobile drivers) have no
choice but to accept the fate of death by routinized "accidents."
Now if we can just get the Isthmus to quit using the term "accident"
when referring to traffic *crashes.*
Oh, by the way, thanks BFW, especially Chuck Strawser for really
pushing this issue. Keep up the good fight!
-Mike
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