As someone who lives in car centric city in America, I have never in my life heard a story where a person gets hit by a car and it not be described actively as the drivers fault
As someone who lives in car centric city in America, I have never in my life heard a story where a person gets hit by a car and it not be described actively as the drivers fault
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 days ago
It’s your lucky day, then!
Car crashes through Milwaukee beauty salon, causes major damage
Why would a car decide to do that? The poor driver just “lost control” of it when it did. The closest this article gets to blaming the driver is to note that they was speeding, which is an implication, at best.
Here’s another one:
Car crashes into garage on Northwest Side
No mention of a driver at all!
kn33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The point, though, is that none of those are “a salon crashed into my car”
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 day ago
But neither do those articles actively discuss the crash as the driver’s fault, so the commenter is able to have a first-time-in-their-life experience.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 day ago
That’s because in every one of the given examples it’s painfully obvious the driver is at fault. Those aren’t scenarios where there’s any ambiguity. It’s not a scenario where a car hit someone on a highway, where fault could easily be either direction.
Driving into a building is clearly caused by the driver of the vehicle. That’s the situation in all of those examples.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
The passive voice, simplistically, makes the object of a clause optional (active voice make the subject optional).
Active: car crashes (into salon)
Passive: salon crashed into (by car)
Your example is swapping the object and subject and changes the meaning.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not a question of active vs passive, just who the actor is. Swapping the actor implicitly swaps blame.
Car hits bicyclist (car implied at fault, as with all the examples above).
Bicyclist collides with car (bicyclist implied at fault, they must have been doing something that caused them to get hit).
The assertion made above is that the latter trend is more common, but it was disputed, and the other examples provided in response just follow the first model.