Why does society so casually accept car deaths? (Relevance explained in my post)

[Anonymous]

Emilie Kiser and her husband are being raked over the coals for the role their negligence played in the death of their child. But if an SUV owner accidentally hit that child, no one would raise pitchforks.

Similarly, a parent who accidentally leaves their child in a hot car would be scrutinized and called a horrible parent and face 100x more backlash than that reckless driver.

[Anonymous]

Off the top of my head
1. Both the drowning and hot car situations are caused by parents seemingly being neglectful vs someone else being at fault. People love to come down on others for that. The ones who are criticizing could never have that happen to them, they are good parents. And for some reason they want to make sure everyone knows what they think of the other parents.
2. In some of these incidences, people feel like no justice is done and that makes them irate. A reckless driver gets charged. A parent who doesn't have good pool safety doesn't get charged.
3. I've seen plenty of outage over car accidents when distracted driving, being under the influence, and speeding are the cause. I just don't think they get nearly as much attention so there less commotion about them.

[Anonymous]

Do most people know who Emily Kiser is? Never heard of her before.

[Anonymous]

Wut

[Anonymous]

I think it's familiarity.
Most people have been involved in a car accident at some point in their life and understand that accidents happen.
Drownings/hot car deaths are more rare, people have less personal experience and don't understand that those incidents are accidents as well.
Also, humans are bad judges of risk. You have people who won't ever let their kids play at a park alone because of stranger danger, but don't even think about the risks of riding in a car (much more dangerous.)