What if he had been shot?

Michelle Malkin points out the ridiculousness of attributing a vehicular death to the vehicle itself:

A WNBC headline: Man In Wheelchair Struck, Killed By SUV In Bronx

Actually, he was killed by the driver of the SUV, wasn't he?

The story continues:

Police said 41-year-old Juan Jimenez was crossing Broadway near 230th Street at about 5:44 p.m. when a late model black Mitsubishi SUV hit him and pinned him under the vehicle with the wheelchair.

The vehicle then fled the scene, leaving Jimenez in the street.

The vehicle fled the scene? This anti-SUV bias is getting a little ridiculous, isn't it?

Presumably, had the man been shot, the headline (and story) would've been along the lines of "Gun Shoots Man" and it would have been reported that "the gun fled the scene."