America makes a lot more sense when you recognise that a large share of the population live with the delusion that cars are people
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derek van vliet
a driver used a pickup truck as a weapon to attack dozens of people in new orleans this morning and the news reflexively uses the passive voice to avoid explaining this
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➡️ Start with the eye-catching death toll followed by its cause
➡️ Writing "... as car ploughs into crowd" allows you to avoid attributing intent on the part of the driver ...
So my theory is that it's a very useful turn of phrase for a headline, even if it is utterly maddening to see it used.