Media Critique- Car crash story, is this simply to worry the masses?

On WDRB's website, under "Top Stories", there is a story titled "Single-car crash in Washington Co. Kills one". While this is very sad news, it does not affect their audience. The newsworthiness of this story is incredibly low because it simply does not affect many people other than the family of the driver. Also, the story has the potential to simply cause worrying amongst the public. Many news outlets are reporting a high amount of negative yet mostly unimportant stories, which only convinces the public that the community is dangerous, or in this case, that the roads are unsafe. Furthermore, the fact that this story is under "Top Stories" is a problem, because the story really is just not a big deal. The inclusive principle of journalism states that the news should be proportional,  meaning that stories should not be blown up or minimized. In this case, the story was definitely blown out of proportion, which, as I stated earlier, can be dangerous.  Car crashes occur very often, there does not need to be special coverage on this one car crash. This journalistic error could be fixed by simply being taken from the website or at the very least taken out of the "Top Stories" section. Again, this is a tragic story, but it simply does not meet journalistic standards.