Maybe it's an effort to be more polite than "by some prick who can't drive". I suppose there's at least one example of someone being hit by a car that slipped

Maybe it's an effort to be more polite than "by some prick who can't drive". I suppose there's at least one example of someone being hit by a car that slipped off a car transporter too. "Had car thrown at him by negligent shipping company" would be a more click worthy headline though