“…was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village Beas Pind, near Jalandhar in Punjab, [India] …”

RIP to an inspirational person. He only started distance running at 89!

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    It makes me livid that professional journalists still refer to preventable motor violence as “accidents”. The most charitable way to describe what happened here is a crash. The most accurate way to describe what happened here is institutionally or personally negligent manslaughter. In the year 2025 there is nothing accidental about the way that road and highway departments all over the world continue to uphold viscerally deadly environments as the normative streetscape.