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Murder requires premeditation and the intent to kill a specific person.
None of those three assertions are true.
You don't need premeditation - you can be having a row, punch someone or pick up a weapon and stab them with intent, and it's murder.
You don't need to intend to kill - intending to injure them (at any rate to the GBH/really serious harm level) is enough.
It doesn't need to be a specific person - set off a bomb intending to kill or injure, even though you have no idea who will be in the shopping centre or concert arena, and it's very definitely murder.
Hitting someone with a car, no matter how negligent or careless, is not murder.
And yet strangely the teenager in the Marcia Grant case was charged with murder, so it seems that the CPS disagrees with you
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Murder is a very specific crime and applies to very few deaths
Murder requires premeditation and the intent to kill a specific person.
Hitting someone with a car, no matter how negligent or careless, is not murder.
And further to Greenbank: prosecutors prefer to go with a charge more likely to result in conviction.