• I have been involved in an accident with a cyclist

    Masterly use of the passive voice.

    That's active voice (the auxiliary verb form 'been' is part of the present perfect, not the passive), but it is certainly borderline ambiguous and she is also dissociating herself from what happened by means of the formulation. Proper passive here would be something like 'I was forced to be in a crash' or 'I have been made to crash into cyclists on at least two occasions'.

  • Hmm, disagree. The word involved is the past participle, and the words 'have been' is the past perfect tense of the verb 'to be', and the conjunction makes it the passive voice. The active voice would be 'I involved...', and 'I was involved' is the passive voice, whether it's 'I was involved', 'I have been involved', or 'I am involved'.

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