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So @finger_jockey why do they say 'a cyclist' rather than 'a bike' if that is the case.
So @finger_jockey why do they say 'a cyclist' rather than 'a bike' if that is the case.
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Coming from a very tenuous journalistic background (and @Oliver Schick is probably better placed to comment on this), I would say that the reason the media always reports it as a 'car' is because they're on safer legal ground, than if they got into specifics about it being a 'driver' (and it therefore inferring the accident being the fault of said 'driver'). (IMHO)