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Hi everyone, welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host.

This week's episode starts with a question. If a drunk driver causes a crash, do we call that an accident?

Or alternately, is it not an accident? Is it a crash? A crime?

How about if it's a distracted driver glancing down at their cell phone or a driver who speeds on a treacherous stretch of road?

There's a movement underway to ensure we do not write these types of incidents off is accidents.

And my guest today is here to take that one step further.

Author Jesse Singer is here to tell you, there are no accidents. Jesse's a fellow journalist whose work has appeared in the

Washington Post, the Atlantic, the nation, Bloomberg News, and elsewhere. She studied journalism at

New York University and her new book entitled There Are No Accidents

challenges us to think about traffic crashes as foreseeable and predictable events that could be prevented if we can shift our thinking away from the idea that these are random acts of God or nature.

Without further ado, please welcome to the podcast,

author Jesse Singer.

Jesse, welcome to the podcast,

so good to have you here today.

Thank you so much for having me.

I wanted to kick us off by recapping a story

in the New York Times that ran yesterday and that you

tweeted about. The headline is something about an Amtrak crash train struck a car at a crossing in California,

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