To the Editor:

Re “Cars Really Are Death Machines” (Sunday Review, Oct. 6):

Like Allison Arieff , I used to think that calling cars “death machines” was extreme, until I hit and killed a teenager one night 22 years ago, in a crash that was judged no-fault but that I continue to grieve deeply.

Ms. Arieff doesn’t quote any drivers, but I want to speak up in support of the survivors and loved ones she features, who decry a way of dying that permeates American life yet receives little attention.

I’m concerned about mass shootings, which are receiving much-deserved attention. But I also know that there were at least 371 mass shooting deaths in 2018, while a low estimate of auto fatalities in 2018 is more than 36,000.

Like Ms. Arieff, I’ve noticed that these tragic numbers don’t seem to change minds. So, like her, I talk about my personal experience.