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Originally Posted by Livia

I really don't understand the problem. The TiBB discussion thread about this says "Ford SUV plows into Wisconsin holiday parade: Some Dead". If people think the car is being blamed, well.... they're being a bit literalist.

I agree for the first example on the thread ("a car drove through") - it's just wording that people are reading too much into. People are rather pedantically saying "How did a car drive?? Did it drive itself??" like it isn't very common phrasing, e.g. "Where is my delivery?? The post van just drove away down that street." ... no one would think twice about someone saying that. They wouldn't say "LOL what do you MEAN the post van drove down that road?? Obviously the postal worker was driving it!"

"That red car just drove past again..." etc. etc. etc.

I feel like "tragedy caused by an SUV" is a little harder to get your head around though . Certainly it INVOLVED an SUV but an incident can't be "caused" by an inanimate object, that wording is really very awkward, I do have to wonder why they shied away from either properly talking about the "cause" OR simply said "involving an SUV" rather than "caused by".