Shesh Aleco is an author and a journalist. His new book, there are no accidents, was inspired by his best friend's death on the bike path in New York City. He found that other people had been killed at the same spot before and after him. The drivers were all different, you know, some were drunk, some distracted, some lost. But every time, after all those deaths, the story that was told was it was an accident. And so no problems were solved.
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.