The rise in distraction-related accidents is chilling to auto-safety advocates who typically study air bags and rollovers.
French air accident experts published a chilling chronology of events that showed the three Air France pilots battling to regain control on flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in a heavy thunderstorm on the morning of 1 June 2009.
And so it continues to the present, even putting aside the numerous near-catastrophic nuclear accidents that occurred over the years, many reviewed in Eric Schlosser's chilling study Command and Control Nuclear Weaponss, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety.
Along the way he gives us chilling, Grand Guignol scenes involving a ghastly subway accident and a grotesque industrial-arts class accident.
In a chilling reminder of the severity of the accident, a lollipop stick was left on the ground where the Audi landed on its roof on the pavement, sandwiched between a green car and a line of trees.
Frances is understandably humbled by this encounter — by the grace that passes instinctively between strangers, by the chilling randomness of their meeting and of the accident itself.
Detectives later found he had been exchanging chilling online messages with an Islamic State fighter in Syria calling himself Abu Hussain, describing attacking military personnel after faking a road accident.
