A family has paid tribute to a six-year-old boy who died after his bike was hit by a car. Kidus Wondwosen died a short time after the collision in Wilmott Street in the Hulme area of Manchester on Sunday.
what is up with this wording? A driver killed that child by driving dangerously. Where can we submit a complaint at this wording by PA Media who supplied the article?
The driver hit the boy. The car wasn’t driverless. Poor reporting of this crime.
Did the car act alone?
Do better.
The car didn’t just hit the bike, it hit the child. Can you not see what you’re doing with wording like this?
The car just hit the bike did it? Not the small child? Poor headline. Very poor.
Would you write that a teenager died after a knife went into him or a bullet entered his body? He was killed by a car for f*cks sake.
Where was the driver?
Driver kills 6 year old child. Fixed it.
A driver ran into a boy with his car.
Tragic story but indicative of a bigger problem. Inanimate objects shouldn't be used to sanitise the human tragedy. I'm sure the driver may well be traumatised and sorry for what they have done but we need to encourage responsible, considerate, friendly road use by all.
please read the replies and rewrite
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'Driver kills a boy, aged 6'. There, fixed your broken headline. Get it right, FFS.
How about the back story here . How many people killed by people driving their cars! Car drivers kill. Cars are inanimate objects. They kill people when they are driven into them. How about a campaign for safer streets on behalf of vulnerable road users.
“Driver kills child with car” Fixed it for you
Write the proper fucking headline.
Also just dropping by to say DRIVER
someone should do something about these rogue cars. Like recognising there was a driver. A person. Poor kid. Very sad for the family.
‘Family pays tribute to child cyclist who was killed by a driver’
A 6-yr old child has been killed by a man in a car. Language matters - you need to correct this and report on the real story: car drivers kill children and get away with it.
Was it a self driving car then? Fix the headline.
'Driver kills child'
Drivers kills boy, let’s call it for what it is please
Morbid reporting its not news.
A 6 year old should not be on or near a road alone, bike or not. RIP little one, your parents failed.
Car hit his bike? Shouldn't it be 'car hit child'?Sort it out Guardian, call it as it is for fuksake!
No the Driver hit and killed a Child. Call it for it is, we have to start to take things like this seriously. A human driving a car has killed another human.
‘Family pays tribute to 'bubbly' boy, 6, who died after driver hit him in Manchester’ Not hard to write a decent headline is it?
Motorist kills child with car.
It must have been so hard crafting the perfect passive voice headline to absolve The Special Big Car Man Who Has a Car and is Therefore Special of responsibility for murdering this little boy
The driver killed this poor young boy with his car. The car didn’t do it - the driver did. RIP. Another life taken.
Crap reporting. 'Car driver and car kill young cyclist', Is the correct wording.
Driverless car, was it?
I once read in a local Newcastle paper that a cyclist killed in a traffic collision had merely been 'brushed' from his bike by the driver, and it was the pavement on which he banged his head that did for him. Inspired, I tried to touch up my skirting boards with a Ford Fiesta.
I think you mean hit by a car driven by a person
R.i.p to the young man. But a miss leading headline. And the driver shouldnt be released.
Please I really would expect better from you. A driver hit and killed a child with his car - this is not about two inanimate objects colliding. And please don’t tell me you reported the driver was arrested - in the last sentence of the report, that is just not enough.
Driver hit child and took his life. Stop normalising with sterilised headlines.
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Shameful headline. I expected better of the Guardian. Cars don't drive themselves. Educate your subs.
I donate to you for properly considered high quality journalism. This isn't it. Reconsider.
“Car hit his bike”. He was run over and killed by a driver, poor lad. Don’t cover up the human role in this. Can’t imagine peterwalker99 is impressed.
Seriously? No wonder you've got to beg for donations to survive when you produce nonsense like this. A driver killed a kid on a bike. That's what happened. Neither the car or the bike are relevant.
The driver hit the child with his car. Please word this correctly. I know the Guardian loves a spelling mistake, but this is just needs correcting.
Another poor boy killed by the *driver* of a car.
So many of your writers use language so well--this is disappointing. Cars don't hit bikes. Drivers hit people.
Car driver kills child.
Was the car driving itself or was there a driver to blame? I wonder. Do you report stabbings as a knife attacking a person, or is someone wielding it?
RIP
Please take a long, hard look at your wording.
If the writer of this headline thought the driver hitting the bike was the salient detail in this article, then your sub-editor is a monster. The driver hit a child.
Horrific.
Self-driving was it this car? Sort yourselves out Guardian.
How incredibly sad. “Man kills child” is the real wording; weasel words like “car hits bike” implies it was the car’s fault. It wasn’t. If this was death due to any other cause of violence it would hit the headlines. That poor family. 😢
Call it what it is, a adult killed a child with the car, the driver is responsible!
RIP how awful and tragic☹️ however driver hits child with car killing him is more accurate surely
Child is killed by driver of a car.
Have you no editorial standards since arusbridger left? A “car” didn’t do this, a “driver” did this
Shameful use of English. A child was killed by a person.
Maybe driver kills child with car? Stop making it sound like much less than it is. Report it properly. The car did not do it by itself.
A driver hit the child with a car.. cars don’t drive themselves yet
Fix your headline.
You can journalism better than this.
Driver runs over boy, not self-aware car hits free-standing bike.
Someone arrested under suspicion, then released pending investigation? Not only did they drive into him, but fled too? Surely if they stayed they'd be on scene with police saying 'I hit him'. Or are they too claiming its the cars fault?
Deepest, deepest condolences to the family and friends of the wee lad. No words. But a f***ing pox on whoever wrote that article, and on the editor who passed it. 'Car hit his bike' ... seriously? WTAF? The bairn's family and friends deserve better, much better, than that.
Driver killed a little boy. Way this is written is a disgrace.
More really terrible headline writing from the Guardian in 2020
LETS GET THIS STRAIGHT. DRIVER HITS AND KILLS CHILD. WHAT A DISGRACEFUL HEADLINE.
A driver killed him.
Maybe a correction could be published for accurate reporting?
Kid run over by motorist. Motorist probably exclaimed how dare someone ride a bicycle on his roads.
Car driver hit child on bike causing his death. There you go.
Why is it ' Cyclist hits Pedestrian' but 'car hits bike' ? Lets keep the rules the same. I have no problem with 'cyclist crashes into ....' as long as we have ' Motorist crashes into ....' all road death should be treated harshly.
Car (somehow autonomously) hits bike - child dies even though car didn't hit him? Disgusting headline - should be more like 'Child killed after driver crashed into him'! Do better
How about 'driver kills innocent kid'?
You only mention a driver was involved in the last sentence. Should expect better,but you've been a middle class shit-rag tabloid for yrs now so i don't. Hope you go bust.
Driver hit child , cars and bikes don’t drive themselves yet
Utterly disgraceful wording. The driver hit the child with his car. Disgusting “journalism”.
He died after a driver ran him over. Language is important
A car hit his bike? Wtf? A driver hit the child. Ffs, get a grip.
A driver killed that innocent baby, not a car, ! Don't normalise deadly car crashes, because they are all preventable. All. visionzero citiesforpeople
Brown boy killed in accident: Guardian article White boy murdered by black man:
A 32-year-old was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving
Jesus. Rest in Peace, precious 💔
Tragic news just like the Cannon Hinnant news story I think you missed?
Come on. A DRIVER steered the car that hit the poor lad.
Reported on the murder of Cannon Hinnant yet?
Lovely boy.
Not a car but a driver. Fix the headline
Heartbreaking 😢
Rest in peace!
Come on you’re better than this. ‘DRIVER’ hit him not ‘car’! carsthatdothingsbythemselves
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