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A pediatric doctor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/deadly-3-car-crash-rittenhouse-philadelphia/3915690/

The original post on the Philadelphia subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/1e5wkv0/insane_accident_on_18th_and_spruce/

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[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Somebody told me that at her hospital they don't say "accident" since it's always preventable. They say "collision"

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

The army shifted to this verbiage as well from “accidental discharge” to “negligent discharge” when at the clearing barrels or while on patrol.

Also increased the punishment, and it helped quite a bit in reducing the knuckleheads. No longer a “whoops! Mah bad”

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

As an old and retired medic, I've done my share of "accidents". There wasn't a single time that I stepped out of my amp-a-lamps and surveyed a scene that I couldn't see the point where someone(s) got stupid. And then things went sidways after that. There is lots of stupid in this world.

There are no accidents. Just people doing stupid things.

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