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The Absent Driver

@absentdriver

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"A casualty was treated for shock after a car drove into a ditch" @EDP24 edp24.co.uk/news/casualty_…


Or: “Emergency services were called after some numbnuts who won their driving licence in a local church raffle managed to roll their car in a car park and then failed to climb out of either the boot or the two large improvised sunroofs they’d created.” bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19175536.…

absentdriver's tweet image. Or:

“Emergency services were called after some numbnuts who won their driving licence in a local church raffle managed to roll their car in a car park and then failed to climb out of either the boot or the two large improvised sunroofs they’d created.”

bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19175536.…

And this is the style of reporting you get from the BBC *after* an actual human has been found guilty… bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/…

absentdriver's tweet image. And this is the style of reporting you get from the BBC *after* an actual human has been found guilty…
bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/…

The automotive industry moves in mysterious ways.


The Absent Driver a reposté

They missed a bit.

absentdriver's tweet image. They missed a bit.

Maybe it had drunk too much petrol. It’s the time of year for office car park Christmas parties, after all. One too many litres at the pump and the next thing you know you’re punching holes in shops because that Mini you were trying to chat up snogged the big new BMW instead.

This was the scene at JD Sports in Sheffield a little earlier after a car smashed into it in the early hours of this morning, leaving the store "trashed": bbc.in/2CiOYk1

BBCLookNorth's tweet image. This was the scene at JD Sports in Sheffield a little earlier after a car smashed into it in the early hours of this morning, leaving the store "trashed": bbc.in/2CiOYk1


What an honourable car. Having a person collide with you and then die is a traumatic experience for any piece of machinery, but a less morally robust model could have fled the scene. You did the right thing and you are a shining example to other inanimate objects.

The car stopped at the scene and so far there have been no arrests. weekender.co.uk/articles/news/…



There is of course the possibility that the reporter wrote something sane (ie ascribing agency to the human rather than the inanimate object) and then a subeditor noticed that this was against editorial policy, and changed it, but failed to do so fully.

I wonder if @absentdriver can shed any light. Does assigning gender to the car help or hinder the absolution of the driver? #driverless #AutonomousVehicles thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17298458.…

MatthewSnedker's tweet image. I wonder if @absentdriver can shed any light. Does assigning gender to the car help or hinder the absolution of the driver?
#driverless #AutonomousVehicles 
thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17298458.…


The framing effect is one of the most basic and most effective forms of influence available to the media. Here’s the @seattletimes employing it with precisely zero subtlety. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

absentdriver's tweet image. The framing effect is one of the most basic and most effective forms of influence available to the media. Here’s the @seattletimes employing it with precisely zero subtlety.
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

The BBC just about manages to acknowledge that the car belonged to someone, but still can’t bring itself to say that he drove it into the victim. bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng…

absentdriver's tweet image. The BBC just about manages to acknowledge that the car belonged to someone, but still can’t bring itself to say that he drove it into the victim.
bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng…

So some of the 13 people sustained relatively major injuries, when one or both of two drivers failed to keep their vehicles apart?

KZN: 13 commuters sustained mostly relatively minor injuries when a minibus taxi and truck collided earlier in Dr Chota Motala Road near the N3 in Pietermaritzburg. @_ArriveAlive @ECR_Newswatch @FatalMoves

Netcare911_sa's tweet image. KZN: 13 commuters sustained mostly relatively minor injuries when a minibus taxi and truck collided earlier in Dr Chota Motala Road near the N3 in Pietermaritzburg.
@_ArriveAlive @ECR_Newswatch @FatalMoves
Netcare911_sa's tweet image. KZN: 13 commuters sustained mostly relatively minor injuries when a minibus taxi and truck collided earlier in Dr Chota Motala Road near the N3 in Pietermaritzburg.
@_ArriveAlive @ECR_Newswatch @FatalMoves


The way the reports of this incident have been written until now, it’s frankly unclear from this headline which seat the man in question was sitting in.

Ce tweet n’est plus disponible.

This tweet has managed to write itself full of contrived nonsense and wedge itself up its own bottom. The grammar police have also pointed out that “their” makes no sense in this context and is symptomatic of a naive and asinine adherence to a policy of obfuscating the driver.

This car has managed to drive down a footpath over the A63 and wedge itself at the bottom. Police have come to their rescue in Hessle.

RadioHumberside's tweet image. This car has managed to drive down a footpath over the A63 and wedge itself at the bottom. Police have come to their rescue in Hessle.


If the last paragraph read “a red Specialized Rockhopper and the driver were involved in the incident” we’d all agree it was bizarre. But using this style to obscure the driver is unremarkable—because we’ve been conditioned for decades to accept that bias.

absentdriver's tweet image. If the last paragraph read “a red Specialized Rockhopper and the driver were involved in the incident” we’d all agree it was bizarre. But using this style to obscure the driver is unremarkable—because we’ve been conditioned for decades to accept that bias.

A 16-year-old cyclist has died after a crash involving a car near Eynsham - police are appealing for anyone who saw it to come forward bit.ly/2OWLC93



“Did you witness a man in his 30s get stabbed by a knife on Saturday? The knife made off towards Peaslake after stabbing the man.”

Did u witness a woman in her 40's get hit by a car, #Cranleigh High Street, approx 8pm, on Saturday (17 Nov)? A car failed to stop after hitting the woman, described as a dark #BMW 3 Series. Anyone w/info pls 📞 101 quoting PR/45180122960. surreybe.at/3glnd



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