Point was to show the two extremes, with news articles mostly using the passive one (which you call neutral but is far from neutral). So in practice never assigning blame to the driver no matter what, or even vaguely assigning the blame to the victim.

A good image breaking down a news article in this way: https://www.camcycle.org.uk/magazine/newsletter110/article8/

It says "the victim was struck" as if it was their fault being where they were, not "the driver struck the victim".

The wording shouldn't sound intentional but the driver usually is to blame.