You could probably build a better "media bias detector" than all the lib bullshit projects just by recording what things get passive voice applied to them.
Wording aside, how does a train get derailed by a car? A car would be - what - a tonne? A single coach of a train would be 10-20 tonnes.
The F1 racecar is shaped like a wedge, which lifted the train off the tracks and even got a little airborne.
A Metro Rail train has derailed after striking a vehicle in East L.A.
yeah man, i'm sure the rail car just went out of its way to strike the car
What do you mean, of course it did! It even crossed to another set of tracks to do it!
How dare that train drive on its tracks at a regular speed and route? Thousands and thousands of individual drivers of varying degrees of intelligence and impulse control can’t handle this level of chaos!
Or that the train is the one at fault. 40% of Trains strike their spouses, you know.
right in the headline, where it didn't say "another vehicle"
Me: "I was complented by a guy I didn't know"
You: so you must be a woman then.
It absolutely doesn't imply that. YOU are reading into it.
I agree that cars get given cop voice, but this particular example I’m not sure how you could reword that sentence. I think I would say “train derails after striking x” regardless of what the object was.
Train derails after striking cow escaped from pasture. Train derails after striking fallen log.
Active voice first.
"A car on the train tracks caused an East LA Metro train to derail"
Fair enough but establishing a causative form is critical here. As written, the train is to blame for striking the car in the same way a car is to blame for striking the pedestrian.
Train derails due to car crossing a red light
Car crossing red light causes train derailment
