phew. Walking in the park and now you’re dead? Getting hit by flying debris from some speeding drivers causing a horrific, deadly crash? Seriously, how often does this stuff happen?
2026-04-08 ~8am. Just out for a nice walk in the park when… “LAVEEN, AZ (AZFamily) — A woman has died after police say she was hit by an out-of-control pickup truck while walking at a park in Laveen Wednesday morning.”
Toddler dead, bicyclist injured in horrific Tucson crash
2026-04-10 ~1pm Friday.
The bicyclist was injured by flying debris. Not sure what “almost killed” vs. “should be fine” means but whatever.
Toddler killed in crash that cut a vehicle in half at Country Club, Valencia
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) – For the second time in a little more than a month, police responded to a high-speed fatal crash at Valencia and Country Club in Tucson.
On Friday, April 10, the Tucson Police Department says a three-year-old girl was killed in a multiple-vehicle crash at the intersection.
Police say the driver was speeding well over the posted limit. One male was arrested and booked into the Pima County Adult Detention Center for second degree murder…. A bicyclist was nearly hit and killed by debris from the crash, but the TPD said the rider should be fine… In the March a******* [a-word redacted], 20-year-old Ashtyn Vandersloot, 20-year-old Antonio Olalde, and 18-year-old Grace Hobbs died. Vandersloot was the driver, and according to his toxicology report, he was drunk (.113 BAC)
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“The driver lost control…” That doesn’t happen, the driver did something that caused him to irradically operate the motor vehicle. There is always an action, it never “just happens”. Just as the Tucson incident involved intoxication, something happened in the Laveen incident. Maybe not intoxication, as the story indicates, but cell phone use, road rage, drinking or eating, spilled something – what did the guy do that caused the loss of control. We really need (a) a new societal attitude about operating lethal weapons on the roadway and (b) a new style guide for news articles to make sure causation is reported clearly.
I agree with David