Language use
What a strange story from the ABC Online news service:
“Man critically injured in train platform accident” (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/19/2142088.htm)
“A man is in critical condition after colliding with a train on a platform of Carnegie Station in Melbourne on Friday afternoon.
Police say the 62-year-old approached the empty express train before he was hit.”
A man collided … (objects collide with objects; in common usage, people don’t collide with trains)
… on a platform … (the train must have risen up from the track)
… the 62-year-old approached the empty express train … (“approached”? – like he was going to ask it for the time?)
