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This really is an extraordinary piece of reporting of a tragic event. It includes so much detail about the incident but yet leaves out one of the most basic facts... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53236522
We know the age, gender & relationship of the two victims, the make & colour of the car, the exact location & time of the incident down to the actual name of the shop that was hit, the exact extent of road closures as a result, the name and rank of the police officer in charge...
...but we don't know anything about the occupants of the car, or even if there were any. Now @BBCNews aren't alone in this kind of #AbsentDriver reporting but really they could show a bit of leadership and tell the whole story.
I'd also suggest that describing a 3 year old toddler as a "pedestrian" is unnecessarily callous.
Here's another one, from a different news outlet, the "motorist" is eventually mentioned towards the end of the article but up to that point you'd be forgiven for thinking the boy had cycled into a parked car. @birmingham_live #AbsentDriver https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/longbridge-high-street-near-sainsburys-18518236
And we are far from immune to the #AbsentDriver phenomenon in this country https://twitter.com/ccferrie/status/1273342119239974912
