It reminds me of the language used in headlines when NHL player Johnny Gaudreau was riding his bike and was killed by a drunk driver. Mainstream headlines kept calling it a bike accident. WRONG!! Not a bike accident

the reporting of that story drove me absolutely mad. I suppose the only silver lining was that it showed our society’s car brain/motonormativity is non-discriminatory: whether for a dog-walking commoner or a millionaire sports star, headlines will misrepresent the incident with painful consistency.