By putting bicycle at the start of the news article, it makes the topic about bike riders instead of the topic being about bad driving.
See the impression titles give, just by the ordering of the words:
“Bicycle riders hit by car” - cycling is dangerous and don’t belong on the road
“Car hits bicycle riders” - how sad, poor cyclists, irresponsible driver
Our goal is to peacefully encourage more people to cycle and convince car owners to use their car for less trips when viable to do so. A lot of people own cars, would calling them Nazis really help our cause?
My vision is we make cyclists and public transit users look like responsible happy citizens and attract jealousy of those stuck in traffic.