Accidents

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"Accident was this sort of magic word of wilful ignorance," says author. People living in poverty and people of color are most likely to die, she adds. "We really see this divide of policy dcisions and unregulated corporate power leading to risk unequally distributed across the us."

Jessie Singer's new book There Are No Accidents has made a big splash in the road safety community and far beyond, by interrogating a word that makes most people nod and move on: "accident." On this week's episode, Singer joins Alex, Kirsten and Ed to discuss how she became fascinated with the word, the realities she discovered behind its bland façade, and what it all means.