Deliberate violations of driving conventions are treated as murder

Evidence

In Indiana, a woman who was accused of driving the wrong way in order to commit suicide and to take her children with her was charged with murder. Given the nature of the driving convention, few people would disagree that hers was a moral and criminal action if the accusation is correct (“Woman Convicted of 7 Murders in Wrong-Way Accident,” USA Today, 11 May 2001). — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 933

Categorization

• SEED: The wrong-way-driving murder conviction is a vivid anchor for an essay on how quotidian traffic conventions carry moral weight comparable to major crimes.