Police Urging Highway Safety During Holidays
by KYW’s Suzanne Monaghan
The number of highway fatalities, injuries and crashes on Pennsylvania roadways dropped during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday. State Police are hoping the same will be true over Christmas and New Year's.
President of the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association, Bruce Edwards, says the harsh reality is holiday cheer can turn to tragedy:
"Any time of year it's not good, but at holiday time, one of the things I guess I would say troopers most dread is when you have to go to a home and report that a loved one is deceased."
Edwards says especially when the death was preventable. In fact, collisions are no longer called accidents. Police refer to them as crashes because most of them could have been avoided.
This is a step in the right direction that will hopefully catch on not just in the news but in daily conversations. "Accident" is a word that conjures up a child that can't get to the bathroom in time, or someone eating shit on a ski slope.
There is no guessing about what is meant by using the word "crash": a violent impact between a (your?) motor vehicle and another object of substantial size (another car, a telephone pole, a pedestrian, a deer, etc.) Just the sound of the word is more violent than it's predecessor.
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