Welcome to the War on Cars. This is Sarah Goodyear with my co-hosts Aaron Napersack and Doug Gordon.

This episode is going to be different.

We're going to hear a story and it's a very painful story from a woman named

Shane Snowden who killed someone with her car. It happened more than 20 years ago and

it changed her life forever.

A warning.

Shane's story is upsetting and she tells it in graphic detail.

This episode is not appropriate for young children.

Our podcast usually focuses on the victims of traffic violence, and that's where the focus belongs.

But we think Shane has an important story to tell.

While many crashes are caused by people driving negligently or recklessly without any regard for the

potential consequences, drivers also kill under entirely mundane circumstances.

It happens every day.

It's part of the reality of what a transportation system built around cars and driving does.

When people have to use a machine that's as deadly as a loaded gun to do everything, go to work,

take the kids to baseball practice, buy a court of milk, it isn't that hard for an ordinary

person to become a killer.

On some level, we all know this, but when we hear about a traffic crash,

we think that's something that only happens to other drivers.

We don't like to believe that we could be responsible

for taking another human being's life. It's a worst-case scenario we keep

hidden from ourselves. For Shane, that worst case scenario became reality.

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