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I ran across an article on the BBC News site this morning, "US peace activist killed in Gaza." I might have paid less attention, had it not been for the sentence:

The woman was identified as Rachel Corrie, aged 23, from Olympia, Washington.

Well, it's not every day someone from your town gets killed in the Gaza Strip, so I looked in the local paper, The Olympian.

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The most plausible scenario, to my mind, is that the driver advanced slowly, expecting Ms. Corrie to chicken out in time; she lost her footing and in doing so was lost to the driver's view. Assuming she'd gotten out of the way, he continued moving forward, with fatal results. It's stretching the definition of the term "accident," but that raises the question to which extent any death that results from playing "Chicken" with a 54-metric ton bulldozer can be termed as "accidental." The point being that I don't think the driver intended to kill her.