If someone is playing with their phone and they kill someone, they are doing prison time.

No "oops oh well, I'll do better next time, sorry you're dead but it's your fault for being there". 2+ ton machine, willful negligence.

There's even a connection log with handy timestamps proving the phone was in use.

Virtually all auto accidents in which a third-party fatality occurs result in criminal liability.

It's extremely rare for a third-party fatality in an auto accident to be caused by something other than criminal negligence or intent.

Most auto accidents that cause death don’t involve third parties. And there are shockingly a lot of people killed in auto accidents, only a very small percentage of those result in prison time.

Exactly why I specified. Multi-party fatal accidents are rare, but they usually involve drunk driving or gross negligence/recklessness

Right, but the original comment didn't specify that, so sounded a bit weird to me.