Do you love children?

Then read this.

Teen drivers kill 6,000 drivers every year and injure another 300,000.

That's not the way the article puts it:

Each year, nearly 6,000 American teenagers die in car accidents involving teenage drivers, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; more than 300,000 are injured.

It's an unfortunate symptom of our car-default culture that this otherwise essential article uses weasel words instead of a plain statement of fact: our kids are killing each other at an alarming rate.

The factors that lead to this unacceptable teenage death toll are well-known and easily controlled:

• Driving after dark


• Driving with other kids in the car


• Alcohol


• Talking on the phone


• Text messaging

Read the article. It filled me with despair that we don't have this epidemic under control, but hopeful that we can.

When teens kill teens, it's no accident.