[MortMan]

Minnesota State Patrol posted on Facebook about the incident which took place on October 26 on Interstate 94 near the Minnesota-North Dakota border, stating that a woman was involved in a one-vehicle crash because she was watching Netflix on her tablet in the passenger's seat.

Reporters don't even speak English any more, do they? The only way the above statement can be true is if the tablet was in the passenger seat, not the driver, but that is not the primary meaning in this construction.

[Haiku Guy]

I think the author means to say that the tablet was on the passenger seat. The woman, unfortunately, was in the driver’s seat.