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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-49076434
"Andy Murray's Olympic gold post box hit by car in Dunblane"
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"Police Scotland confirmed they attended the "low speed collision" and that the female driver of the car had sustained a minor injury but did not require medical treatment.
It was unclear whether the woman was in the car at the time or not."
So perhaps not entirely sentient then.
"Police name 75-year-old pedestrian killed by quad bike"
"Police have named a 75-year-old woman who died after being struck by a quad bike which mounted the pavement in Glasgow."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-48988460
I made a complaint to the BBC about this. Got a reply saying that because the story is the subject of an ongoing police investigation, they need to be mindful about appearing to attribute blame. So they have to "set out the facts in a neutral way".
Which would be fair enough, I suppose, if you regularly saw similar stories with language like "Police name person killed by bullet" and "Police have named a person who died after being stabbed by a knife which entered their body in Edinburgh."
Suicidal self driving bus successfully decapitates itself:
If anything that headline makes it sound like the bridge attacked the bus
Bad enough with sentient vehicles. Now we've got aggressive sentient bridges!
It's a whole new type of passive aggressiveness.
Further response regarding above complaint to the BBC:
"...In general though you ask that we should start reporting driving offences in the same way as we do a stabbing. We would simply point out that driving offences are not normally classified by the police or courts as “violent crime” nor is the use of a motor vehicle usually considered in law comparable to the use of a knife or weapon. An exception could be when a driver is charged and convicted of culpable homicide..."
And do they apply this logic to reporting instances where a cyclist and their bike hit a person?
“THE railings of a city-centre tenement were demolished when two cars crashed in the road outside.
One of the cars smashed into the railings and was left hanging over the edge of the basement area after the accident in Chester Street in the West last night (Tuesday).”
And another one:
“A car was shunted into a Costa Coffee shop in Stockbridge this morning following a two vehicle crash.
The incident happened at the coffee shop in Raeburn Place just after 1am on Wednesday”
Apparently 1st Developments are trialling self-driving vans in the Edinburgh area...
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@LauraAlderman_
BREAKING: Long queue of traffic on Gorgie Road right now as a van appears to have crashed into traffic lights near Saughton park.
@STVNews
https://twitter.com/LauraAlderman_/status/1193901095082479616
There is a mention of driver and passenger at the foot of the page, however it would seem this is yet another rogue autonomous vehicle.
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Pub goers in lucky escape after car crashes into tables outside popular Edinburgh bar
The car hit tables and chairs before coming to a halt outside the Cask and Barrel on Broughton Street.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/edinburgh-revellers-lucky-escape-after-12963367
Drivers have been facing delays in part of Edinburgh this afternoon after a car struck a stationary vehicle and blocked the road. The Nissan Note collided with the other vehicle in Myreside Road at about 3:10pm.A police spokeswoman said the driver of the Nissan has been taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as a precaution.
There have been some local reports of traffic being brought to a standstill in the area with only cyclists and pedestrians getting along the road.
Read: There have been some local reports of cars being brought to a standstill
Part of my commute, genuinely wonder how some things are possible it's a fairly benign bit of road:
Here's hoping the poor car is not injured!
Festive recklessness from self-driving cars in central Scotland!
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Power pole crash knocks out supplies to villages near Falkirk
Residents of villages in the Falkirk area were left without power after a car left the road and hit an electricity pole.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-50902286
No mention of any driver.
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Pedestrian killed in road crash on Isle of Lewis named
A pedestrian who died after being hit by a car on the Isle of Lewis has been named by police. Kenneth Macsween, 85, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash near his home in Aignish, Point, on Monday. Police said he was hit by a blue Volkswagen Polo at about 17:25. Road closures have been put in place while officers establish the circumstances of the collision. Police have asked for information from potential witnesses.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-50897694
No mention of a driver here.
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Woman dies week after being hit by car in Aberdeen
A woman has died in hospital after being struck by a car in Aberdeen last Monday. Joan Kane, 69, was hit by a red Hyundai on the Lang Stracht. She died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Sunday. Police Scotland said inquires into the crash were ongoing. Sgt Sergeant Craig McNeill said: "I would urge anyone who may have information about the collision and has not already spoken to officers to contact police."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-50951052
For the BBC to routinely describe these deaths as the result of a "crash" is disgusting and unforgiveable in its implications. Neutral reporting my arse.
It's a classic example of unconscious bias. Most people drive, presumably most journalists drive too. Thus they are less willing to believe a driver could be at fault as it could easily have been them - their sympathies are often with the driver rather than the other.
today's bbc reported pedestrian death also has the cops declaring it a "crash", not just the bbc editorial
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-50972098
"crash".. it can be passed over with a shrug.. gives the impression of an equitable distribution of opposing forces
rather than the horrific reality of a ton of metal hitting vulnerable flesh and bone in a bloody one way kinetic momentum that could never be described as a "crash"
there should be an outcry, this normalisation of road death is unacceptable
"The driver initially failed to stop"
Ahem. That's a hit and run.
Since when have the press (including the BBC) stopped reporting hit and runs as hit and runs?
Turns out the the pedestrian, is the brother of a colleague's son's girlfriend.
Tragic.
Isn't it lucky that the white van which DIDN'T kill anyone had a driver who may have witnessed the apparently driverless car which DID kill an old man?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-51140426
This morning BBC radio had a spate of 'cars leaving the road / going out of control'. No drivers involved.
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