2 men dead. It's only 'misadventure'

I watched the News yesterday evening on telly as I do. On came a piece on an horrific accident which I vaguely recalled - in truth there have been so many it's hard to remember any particular one. This one involved a young female. Not the stereotypical victim, but the killer this time.

The matter further involved her driving an old Honda Civic saloon at excess speed, on a provisional driving license ( having never had any formal training - at all - it transpired! ) Having overtaken another vehicle, she crashed under a bridge. The two male passengers in the car were catapulted from the car and killed.

The politics of death clearly came into play here. If the driver was male, he would be herded to and from the court like a rapist ( if every other report I have ever seen is anything to go by ). There would be a historical retrospective citing every road accident since 2003 to accompany the report, followed by some stone - faced bastard trying to work himself up to the point of being hilarious scowling "people need to slow down".

Sure, it's in bad taste to write this. It's in even worse taste to believe in gender discrimination through death. When a young man kills he is a killer, when a young woman kills it is 'misadventure'.