Mother of Olympic medallist Becky James breaks pelvis after she is hit by car while cycling

While on the linguistic issue: if the driver was responsible, HE broke her pelvis. She didn't.

"Im a wee bit confused by all this "it wasnt the car it was the driver" thing..."

It's a general jouranlistic trait that when an incident involves someone driving the a car, the car get's held responsible, but where as if a person is riding a bike then the rider is held responsible.

I.e. you will tend to see written -
"The car lost control on the corner"  and "the cyclist lost control on the corner"
Rather than say  -
"The driver lost control on the corner", or "the bicycle lost control on the corner".  

The first is the linguistic norm in papers but comes with an unfortunate uncousous bias of absolving fault from a driver.  Papers will argue that they are not in a position to accertain blame therefore can't use the form placing blame on the driver. A position however that they don't adopt  quite so rigourously if you are riding a bike.
Once you start noticing the difference, it starts to grate a bit, hence the comments above.

Another inanimate object causing damage... Self propelled, self steered I am guessing.

My girlfriend is from Abergavenny, so we drive in that area occasionally, I have to say when I've seen cyclists there I've been disappointed by how drivers generally treat them.

Glad she has raised the right message rather than the "wear magic hats" tripe we sometimes see after this sort of thing. Hope she makes a full recovery and the driver (and hopefully many more) learns from their mistake.

Get well soon Christine.