Jim revisits the the matter of repetition versus redundancy.
In last week's column I fielded a letter from a reader who feels headlines are often unfair to trains or, presumably, the engineers who operate them.
Former state Rep. Paul Froehlich came up with a few options he thought would cast the train and engineer in a better light:•"Truck driving around lowered gate gets hit by train"The simple image of a car stopped on the tracks assesses blame -- whether with the driver or the car -- so"causes train collision" seems redundant to me. I'd rather go with"Car stuck on tracks hit by train.
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