5 year old mercilessly crushed to death by a speeding truck

The newspapers are abound with headings like these. The culprit in each case is undoubtedly the truck driver, who was speeding and killed someone. The driver is promptly arrested.

Has anyone cared to calculate how much time does a fully loaded truck moving at 60 Kmph take to stop when the driver jams the brakes. And what magic is the driver supposed to produce when a kid decides to run right in front of it into the highway without looking left or right to see if a vehicle is coming. This behavior is not limited to children.

The knee jerk reaction of the locals is to make an illegal speed breaker at the location, and vehicles with broken axles and other damage would be a common site at the location in future.

Why is a scapegoat necessary. Why can't we hold the person responsible so that other people are more careful while crossing the roads in future.

The media is equally guilty. They choose to go with the impressive eye catching headline rather than saying that the person died out of its own mistake of running into a highway without looking.