"We have to start looking at the language...a lot of people have a hard time thinking of a car 'accident' as being something that deserves a punishment...Someone chose to drive in an unsafe manner that day and it resulted in my child's death" https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-newstalk-breakfast/calls-for-harsher-sentences-for-careless-drivers

Amy Dutil-Wall, mother of Estlin, aged 3, who was killed due to the driving behavior of Senan O'Flaherty, is quite rightly calling for harsher penalties for people whose driving behaviour causes death and serious injury.

There are very few 'accidents' on our roads.

"Research has demonstrated that how journalists describe and discuss crashes affects how people see the causes of and solutions to road danger." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/sep/28/why-we-need-media-reporting-guidelines-for-road-safety

"Not only that, it influences how we treat others on the roads – with language that dehumanises other road users, often cyclists, predicting aggression and violence between road users."

"It also affects how our legal system tackles law-breakers on the roads. Those working in the criminal justice system, from police, magistrates and jurors to coroners and judges, all read the news."

"When they read that “a car”, rather than “a driver”, has caused injury or damage, it trivialises the dangers imposed on the most vulnerable road users by bad drivers."