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Common errors in English:killed after - KILLED BY, KILLED IN, DIED AFTER

 killed after - KILLED BY, KILLED IN, DIED AFTER


Reporters often claim that accident victims have been killed after a collision with car or after some other catastrophe. What they really mean is that they were killed in the accident (if death was instantaneous), or by it, or that they died after it (if they lingered); and that’s what they should say.

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