This morning at around 1:15 am, a man walking on the Link Light Rail tracks in an area that was marked as off-limits to pedestrians was hit and killed by a train. Every media outlet within 100 miles covered the collision, with headlines ranging from "Light rail hits, kills pedestrian" to "Light rail train kills man " to "First light rail vs. pedestrian fatality."

Meanwhile, today, 17,589 people will be in auto accidents. Of those, 9,315 will be injured, and 118 will be killed.