A car crossing a red light would be a "level 0" incident if the driving industry had such a scale.
And a car refusing to stop for a pedestrian on a crossing would perhaps be "Level 1" ? And what would be your attitude to that? ;)
More seriously, though you may be right about journalists, public reporting of incidents is meaningless unless it is publicly reported. A list of incidents on a web page you have to search for, and an absolutely derisory Public Information Centre effort by the French Nuclear Security Authority (please take a serious look, if you can stop laughing, at the presentation on the Authority's site of the Public Information Centre and the documentation made available to the public (not a single link!!!).)
So the journalists may be ignorant (not surprising) but a genuine effort by the authorities to inform transparently is not there. In the case of nuclear, that is a serious matter precisely because nuclear is scary.
So I'd say they get the reporting they deserve.
Syndicated political columnist and television pundit Robert D. Novak was issued a $50 traffic citation yesterday after he struck and slightly injured a pedestrian while driving his sports car in downtown Washington, police said.
Novak, who was on his way to work when the incident occurred, said the bicyclist was "shouting at me that I couldn't just hit people and drive away. But I didn't know I'd hit him. I really didn't have any idea it happened until they flagged me down and told me."
Bono, 47, a partner at Harkins Cunningham law firm, said: "I can tell you what I saw. I was on K Street on my bicycle, and what I saw was a guy get hit by a black Corvette convertible. I see the guy go up on the hood, up on the windshield." As the Corvette turned right from 18th Street onto the service road beside K, Bono said, "the guy rolled off the hood and landed on the street."
