They died by car.
The car fall off a car carrier and crushed them.
The car fell off a ravine and landed on their heads.
The car was self-driving and had a computer error.
It’s absolutely not absurd to say they were “killed by a car” because yes, they were.
You can add information about the driver and that’s great. But the man didn’t sit on them and kill them.
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I mean we don’t live in cartoon-land man. We like to know the manner of death, even if it brings a funny cartoon image of a car intentionally doing something with eyes and a mouth. That’s why headlines say “car did this” “gun did that”.
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