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For once ā Bike crashes through driver's windscreen on M9 at West Lothianā appears accurate
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A very serious crash in Gunnersbury Lane which doesn't deserve this kind of shoddy reporting:
Met Police officers and the London Ambulance Service (LAS) attended. At the scene, an 82-year-old man was found to have been in collision with a blue coloured Mercedes A Class.
The car did not stop at the scene.
The driver is mentioned later:
A 27-year-old man self-presented at a west London police station later that same day. He was arrested on suspicion of failing to stop after a road traffic collision and later released on bail.
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"Both vehicles stopped at the scene and are assisting police with their enquiries."
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Pales against this terribly tragic incident, but among the worst in this thread.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-highams-park-bus-crash-26040493
"Highams Park accident: 19 injured including 3 kids as London bus smashes into shop"
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The language is absurd, but following a local Walthamstow council newsletter I received this morning, which states that an investigation into the bus crash is underway, I can understand why it may be too early to place responsibility in the hands of the driver. At the early stage of reporting these incidents, it hasnāt been established whether the driver was responsible or if there was a fault in the vehicle.
Even if the driver was responsible, by falling asleep at the wheel, for example, it would still be incorrect to state that the driver actively smashed into the front of the shop. Anyway. Semantics. But itās not always clear cut.
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Grammatically, the 'leaving' clause doesn't necessarily pick up the bus. It's vague and can be interpreted in the way you choose, but the usage of this sort of phrase is generally '..., which incident caused this or that to happen'. The writer won't have had it in mind to specifically implicate the bus.
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Yes, I can see that āleavingā doesnāt necessarily imply responsibility, more consequence. Iām already revising my ādriver not carā position. It seems the the main problem in the almost-live reporting is that itās too soon to establish any responsibility, which leads to vague language that doesnāt represent the hierarchy of responsibility/danger on the roads.
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Couldn't really find a suitable thread for this but it seems to fit.
Not just the UK that hates cyclists
https://twitter.com/fietsprofessor/status/1490383921275707392?t=iuzJ_kWcHACuKM616FFw5A&s=19
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This one is pretty good too
https://twitter.com/Sinabhfuil/status/1490599819110400000?t=h-yqTjTR74AQsifYmwVk9g&s=19
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Oh the irony.
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Say 'drivers', not 'cars': it's the people in inside the boxes that do the stuff
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Gaimon nails it
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