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Does it matter if you actively crash your car? Actively crashing your car would be using your car as a weapon. Which would read attack rather than crash. Objectively a driver is in control of a car, if the driver loses control, the car can crash. Losing control of the car is not in question, the question would be is the driver negligent in their actions. If you were unsure for wording the difference would be "driver crashes" compared to "driver causes crash". The driver always crashes unless they jump out of the vehicle.
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‘Driver crashes car into campsite’ sounds like an act of terror, which might be why they rowed back.
‘Driver loses control of car that crashes into campsite’ is probably the best option but we’re getting into unwieldy headline territory.
I’m all for accurate reporting to ensure drivers are held responsible, but it’s quite complicated to get right so early in the reporting.
snoops
As we discussed a few pages back, the Guardian may feel it is yet to be established whether the driver actively crashed the car. It may only be known that the car crashed, with the driver’s function in it unknown.
Either way, a car cannot try to brake.