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Unsure what country this is in, but I'm going to assume it's a car-brained one.
Excess automobile deaths are seen as unimportant and are one of the largest forms of social murder. Areas are designed around personal automobile transport, personal automobile transport is required to make the economy work (workers and things get places on time), therefore if a motorist causes an injury it was in support of something greater than themselves. This leads to rulings like this that should be classified as murder. People operate cars like psychopaths on a good day, and even if someone is having a bad day (tired, distracted, sick) outside of their control and driving, they can still produce the same results as someone trying to prove something about their ego.
One of the earliest points of my eventual radicalization was when, as a kid, I realized that like 40k people die in car crashes annually in the US and...we don't really do much about it? New cars are made safer in certain ways but you're still driving a box at speeds far faster than people were ever intended to go from an evolutionary standpoint, and you're dependent upon people around you also making the correct decisions at the correct times.
Why not just get more public transit, particularly rail based systems which don't need nearly as much snap judgement?
Then I learned about how the rail industry, both heavy and light, in a lot of the US got dismantled by auto companies buying it up