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I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised if more than 99% of drivers have, at some point, looked at their phone or engaged in some other distracting behavior while driving. It almost never leads to an accident. What's the difference then between someone who ends up killing someone and someone who doesn't? Bad luck - that's the difference. I'm not going to pretend that this unlucky person is somehow morally exceptionally reprehensible, knowing that it could just as easily have been me. If you're in the tiny minority who has, from day one, put 100% of your focus and attention into driving every single time you get behind the wheel without exception, I applaud you. But understand that this is extremely rare. That's why I see it for what it is - an unlucky accident and I'm glad no one got seriously injured.
Oh, I get the confusion. You didn't actually read the shitty article.
Admittedly, it's not really worth reading. But, if you're going to die on this hill, you might want to give it a glance.
This wasn't some one-off example of distracted driving, or poor decision making from an unformed mind. It's a pattern of behavior, that has been conditioned, and reconditioned into him.
It is extremely unlikely, that this little hiccup, changes that for him. I'd say the odds of that happening are about as good as you winning the lottery.
Edit: After reading Foggy's comment providing even more information, I take back everything I said and am now actually upset that he lived. The world would have been made slightly better had he not survived.