No, I agree they'd be unlikely to mention the driver was British, but I do think they'd probably make something of it if the driver had been receiving benefits (whether that were legitimately so or not) and use it in a derogatory way, if they were disabled, or if they had been a doctor, dentist, or anything else the media could use to try and 'scandalise' the situation. I suspect that may be more at the core of this, something to do with a journalistic desire to make the story more dramatic with any details they can find regardless of the wider consequences. However I do feel there are issues surrounding racism and more often the ability to label as racist (or any kind of anti P.C) to avoid consequences. Like this current case of the Muslim dentist, who complained against a particular police officer whom he accused of racism (whilst filming him on his mobile phone) thus leaving the police officer who from the footage wasn't being remotely racist with the complaint on his record and the dentist has now been given a 'slap on the wrist' by the GDC for his practice of 'requesting' female muslim patients put on a headscarf before he would treat them. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482112&in_page_id=1770 The Daily Mail unfortunately was the most mainstream media I could find (although the bbc have covered this in a surprisingly well balanced way) Bendy Girl