2011-10-28 - Rider Down/Fatality, Woodstock Road, Oxford

http://www.cherwell.org/news/town/2011/10/28/cyclist-dies-on-woodstock-road[QUOTE]collided with a cement mixer lorry
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From the newspaper link above don't like this line

'The victim, who was on a bicycle, collided with a cement mixer lorry'

RIP and condolences to family.

The line about 'the cyclist colliding with a vehicle' is found in many crash reports. While it's fairly routine and ingrained, so that people may just use it without thinking, I often feel that it can be an unconscious slip of a journalist's underlying belief that the cyclist is to blame--specifically, for 'colliding with that particular vehicle', or, more generally, as cyclists 'put themselves and others in danger' (which is a widely-held belief).