In the first sentence of a review concerning the posthumous publication of Roland Barthes' journals:

Nearly three decades after he was hit and fatally injured by a laundry van in a Paris street, the French literary theorist and critic Roland Barthes still enjoys rare prestige in his native land as well as in the English-speaking world.

From page 329 of Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy:

Barthes should not have died so early. He was run over by a milk truck...

Which killed the great semiotician? A truck carrying laundry or a truck carrying milk?