• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A pediatric doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.

    The use of passive voice in the first sentence does a lot of work shifting blame away from the driver and the car centric systems in an “objective” effort.

    How about:

    Cyclist Barbara Friedes died when the driver of a car hit her in the bike lane on Wednesday night.