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I agree with you - the title is the way it is because I purposefully never editorialize the titles of news articles I post and use whatever is the title of the article at the time of posting.
You are welcome to modify the title to make it more accurate and less exonerative if you' like.
I'd be alright with it standing as an illustrative example of how the media perpetuates vehicular violence with their choice of terminology, if you don't mind.
could you expand a bit more on that? I'd like to learn more about how they're perpetuating that violence?
It's the wording. Commonly:
All of these help exonerate the whole system of cars and the damage they inflict.
for point 2, I guess they might've worded it that way to try and avoid a race riot? you're right it does sound passive in that way, but whenever car attacks happen, the hate speech shoots up in Germany.
by accident do you mean how the media frames car injuries in general or in this article? I don't see accident mentioned anywhere
In general.
The passive voice was not used here, nor was this a matter of an accident - those were examples of other cases where media covers for cars.
I think it's perfectly possible to mention that a driver was the perpetrator without bringing in their race into the headlines. This is also how they always write these things, so I doubt this time was anything special.