quite easily the most impactful celebrity/athlete death in my life. Not only because he was a Flames player for almost a decade (and a darn good one!), but because the way Johnny and Matthew passed is just so senseless, avoidable and enfuriating. The thought that their parents lost two children, their sister lost two brothers one day before her wedding, their wives lost their husbands and two little children lost their father, all because of one drunk driver, is just sickening.
Just such a senseless tragedy, it's hard to find words. But speaking of words, I struggle with the word "accident", which has also been used in German speaking coverage of this.
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