Four days, four BBC headlines on the crash that killed seven people, including two police officers. Saturday: a crash that happened 'after' a police pursuit — the exact template the BBC used in 2021 and 2022, as we showed yesterday. Sunday: the pursuit made it into the headline and the police quietly left it. Monday: gangsters and TikTok. And today: "Father's house was rammed by car before son died in A66 crash." * Today's headline isn't false. A house in Acklam belonging to the father of Cole Worthy, 17, was rammed before Worthy and four others set out in the Passat that drove the wrong way up the A66. The BBC even adds, carefully and correctly, that there's no suggestion the father was involved in any criminal activity. Notice, though, the grammar holding the front door: the house was "rammed by car." Cars don't ram houses. Somebody drives them. Four days in, this story still can't produce a headline where a person does something. * Now scroll to paragraph eight of that same article, because the most important new fact of the entire story is sitting there with its coat on: the Independent Office for Police Conduct says officers pursued the Passat for almost seven minutes, and abandoned the pursuit ten seconds before the crash, when the car turned the wrong way onto the dual carriageway. * Seven minutes. Ten seconds. That is the first official timeline of what happened before five young men and two officers died — the answer to the question every headline since Saturday has been stepping around. Saturday's formula, 'crash after police pursuit,' turns out to have been doing ten seconds' worth of work. To be precise, and the BBC is precise about this in paragraph eight: the car the Passat hit was a different police vehicle, not the one pursuing it. That detail matters, and it cuts both ways. Which is exactly why it's headline material. * This isn't only a BBC habit today. The Guardian went with "Five more arrested over crash that killed seven people including two police officers." The Mirror counted "5 more arrests" and found room for 'threats to kill.' Seventeen arrests make a countable, chargeable, headline-able story. A seven-minute pursuit that ended ten seconds before impact makes a question — and questions about police conduct, we've now watched for four straight days, travel through this story's coverage in economy class. * Credit where due: the BBC published the IOPC's numbers, published the security footage showing the car 'being pursued by police vehicles three minutes before the crash,' and protected the dead teenager's father from insinuation. The reporting is in the building. It just keeps being assigned to the paragraphs, while the headlines handle the gangsters, the arrests, and the architecture. * Months from now the IOPC will publish its findings, and whatever they say, there'll be a headline. When it comes, remember where the first timeline ran: paragraph eight, beneath a smashed bay window.