They accidentally killed someone with their car. Now they want reform.

Jennifer Eikenhorst was driving home with her young daughters one evening after picking them up from a friend’s house.

Jennifer Eikenhorst was driving home with her young daughters one evening after picking them up from a friend’s house. She was on a rural road and came to a stop at the top of a hill, so she didn’t see the approaching motorcyclist. 

“His name was David, and when I entered the intersection, it was too late for him,” she said.

At that moment, Eikenhorst became a CADI, an acronym for Causing Accidental Death or Injury — a term coined by the late Maryann Gray, founder of the Hyacinth Fellowship, an organization that offers comfort and guidance to people who accidentally kill or seriously injure someone.

At least 30,000 people become CADIs and their victims each year, said Chris Yaw, the fellowship’s president. Many accidental deaths involve guns or medical mishaps, but the majority, he said, are caused by car crashes.

The deaths have inspired some CADIs, like Eikenhorst, to seek reforms to the nation’s car-centric transportation system that allows otherwise innocent people to become unintentional killers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/accidentally-killed-someone-car-now-want-reform-rcna126613

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