The Economist (US), October 19th, 1991
"IT WAS an accident, that's all. Accidents happen." The speaker is a teenager left crippled after a school bus careers down an embankment to slide into-a water-filled pit in a small town in upstate New York. She is right; it really was an accident. But it is an explanation few are prepared to accept for a crash in which 14 children have died.
At the funerals, lawyers slip their cards into the pockets of mourners. For them "there is no such thing as an accident". They are ready to sue any party for negligence as long as the party is worth suing. The driver of the bus is not rich enough; the ...
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