Car crashes into group of cyclists, leaving one dead and others injured
www.abc.net.au
Emergency services were called to Long Swamp Road just outside of Armidale at about 3:30pm on Saturday following reports of a crash.
  • ZagorathOPEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    phrasing the title in exculpatory passive voice

    Uhh, this isn’t passive voice, though? Passive voice would be “cyclists are crashed into by car”. This makes it pretty clear: the car is the thing that actively caused harm here.

    • @grueMEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      Yeah, I misspoke slightly. I’m not sure what the correct terminology is (for excusing the person by blaming the inanimate object/tool), though, so I can’t correct it.