When writing a balanced report is wrong

So I get a news report from a young reporter. “A car was in collision with a bath,”, it tells me.

Huh? So…. someone was driving a bath down a road?

No. She explains that the guy in the bath claimed that the car drove through the wall of his house (this happened in the US state of Oklahoma).

But she says decided to write that the car and the bath were in co…