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How does the SUV become the killer?

I don't get this, but I'm starting to notice a trend with SUVs that news reports make them out to be the murderers as if the driver controlling the SUV doesn't exist...You don't hear this with shootouts when lines read "A man with a gun held a store hostage...The man shot two people dead...", but when it's SUVs, it somehow instead reads "A man driving an SUV ran over a pedestrian...The SUV killed the person apon impact..."

I mean, the headline on this story just speaks words...

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...0143585.htm?1c

Quote:

Man pleads no contest to manslaughter in SUV death

By the Mercury News

A Santa Cruz man accused of running over and killing an aspiring Palo Alto rapper with a sport-utility vehicle pleaded no contest Tuesday to a charge of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

His lawyer, Paul Meltzer, said William ``Billy'' Hill, 22, will receive a four-year sentence for running over Chad Snow, 23, as Snow lay on a sidewalk on Palo Alto's Washington Avenue after a party at a nearby house in October 2003.

Snow and Hill had gone outside after a rowdy party on Cowper Street broke up about midnight on Oct. 3, 2003. There was reportedly a fist-fight, and Hill and some friends were attempting to flee in a white Chevy Tahoe when Snow jumped on the hood.

Two friends of Snow's told police they watched him fall to the ground when the SUV stopped abruptly. They said they ran to help Snow, but as they laid Snow next to a tree, the SUV made a three-point turn and charged onto the sidewalk, driving over Snow's head and hitting his friend, Rodney Bautista.

Snow was taken off life support and died on Oct. 7, 2003.

I added in the bold text in the body of the story...

The way these killer-SUV stories are worded are kinda comical to me... :blah:

but thats like from 0ct 2003...and you just noticed it? and that link requires you to sign in.

From that story, im not exaclty sure if the two witnesses knew who was driving.

no matter what sport utility VEHICLES are unsafe. and they can easily be weapons.

As for your gun analogy: "the bullet killed the person upon impact" it wouldnt be "the gunman who happened to be firing the bullet killed the person upon impact."

In effect the SUV is what is killing someone, so it's not totally incorrect or transferred epithet. But as you pointed out, the same applies to the gun, or the bullet. I think people are just against SUVs so try to make them sound as bad as possible.

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Originally posted by billyvnilly
no matter what sport utility VEHICLES are unsafe. and they can easily be weapons.

They're just as unsafe and lethal as any other car on the road. They're actually safer than most cars due to their mass and the safety that mass provides to its occupants. Yes, I understand that that just makes it easier to kill someone in a smaller car, but it's always a double-edged sword; the lighter vehicle is always worse off in a crash, regardless of whether it's an SUV or not.