Indeed, news focuses on single events of many people killed in one place. There's some 43,000 people killed in auto wrecks every year, but I don't think any more than one or two major wrecks ever makes the news. Certainly no single auto-wreck that I know of prompted congressional hearings.

43,000 Americans killed versus - what - 25 or something? Where is the focus on auto safety? We could be doing so much more to stop the deaths and half-million major injuries reported involving automobiles every year. The most obvious of course being improved licensing to substantiate you actually have the skills needed to operate the vehicle you want to drive. 5 Americans die every hour of every day in auto wrecks; you'd think we would put more focus on it than we do.