It’s remarkable how a motorist will kill someone and it will be reported in a grammatical form in which you could easily substitute “lightning” or “hail” for “a car”
Tony Corsentino
"Gordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island."
A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuries