[Ecreacher]

Originally Posted by istoauresmaa ↗

My situational awareness evolves day by day after browsing DR. I never understood why people don't watch left, right and again left when crossing the street. Especially when there is a car speeding you should hear it. Or did that ewok use those annoying white airpods and isolated himself from the surroundings?

That guy just had bad luck. How was he to know some fuck face would come screaming around that car and hammer him? That driver should be put down. Everyone thinks they are more important than everyone else now. Fuck em.

[AngelAssassin]

I hope that driver goes to prison for life, or he is used as canon fodder.
Fucking RETARD.

[mothmon]

Driver is at fault obviously but walker should have had better situational awareness. One of those "I'm gonna take my sweet time, cousin, cuz *I* HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!"

[TerminusV]

Originally Posted by Ecreacher ↗

That guy just had bad luck. How was he to know some fuck face would come screaming around that car and hammer him? That driver should be put down. Everyone thinks they are more important than everyone else now. Fuck em.

As long as you mean EVERYONE, because that kid thought he was more important than oncoming traffic and was moseying nice and slow infront of an already approaching car. That mentality of "pedestrians always have right of way" got him killed. They don't always have the right of way, no crosswalk or anything and the pedestrian should give way to road traffic.

Granted the audi was haulin ass and should be at fault for this but the kid had it coming sooner or later with that lack of self preservation on assuming everyone will yield to him.

[iceman247]

dumbass

[AngelAssassin]

Originally Posted by TerminusV ↗

As long as you mean EVERYONE, because that kid thought he was more important than oncoming traffic and was moseying nice and slow infront of an already approaching car. That mentality of "pedestrians always have right of way" got him killed. They don't always have the right of way, no crosswalk or anything and the pedestrian should give way to road traffic.

Granted the audi was haulin ass and should be at fault for this but the kid had it coming sooner or later with that lack of self preservation on assuming everyone will yield to him.

•The description said he WAS in a crosswalk.
•The pedestrian was making his way at a decent pace when the first car had slowed down for him.
•Going as fast as the speeding car was, the pedestrian wouldn’t even have heard it, never mind seen it in time.
•The speeding car was hidden from the pedestrian’s sight, behind the car that slowed down, until the very last second.
•By the time the speeding car swerved into the wrong lane, the pedestrian had a fraction of a second to notice it and then make a decision to move, and then to actually move! It takes between a second and two for an unprepared person to react to something random. We see it literally all the time in all these videos…
•Besides all that, WHY would the pedestrian expect a car to suddenly appear in the far lane, going in the wrong direction?

It just doesn’t make sense as the pedestrian’s fault.

[bigbear8]

Originally Posted by AngelAssassin ↗

It just doesn’t make sense as the pedestrian’s fault.

I would not have written all that, but your summary is exactly correct. Absolutely no way for the poor kid to react to something he just barely noticed randomly. I know he didn’t hear it probably.

[dystopian]

Originally Posted by bigbear8 ↗

I would not have written all that, but your summary is exactly correct. Absolutely no way for the poor kid to react to something he just barely noticed randomly. I know he didn’t hear it probably.

But passing is a common occurrence so a car coming from that direction in that lane was a foreseeable possibility. Speeding is also very common and very foreseeable. These two relatively common occurrences sometimes happening at the same time is a statistical inevitability, one that made crossing with an obstructed view a gamble with his life.

This teen’s aloof reliance on right of way to protect him, rather than waiting for the traffic to pass was a fatal lapse in judgement especially given how light traffic was the effect of this fact on the chances someone would be speeding. Not only would waiting for the near car to pass first been far safer it would’ve also been the polite thing to do (and would’ve added mere second in such light traffic.)

[dystopian]

Originally Posted by dystopian ↗

[…] Not only would waiting for the near car to pass first been far safer […]

CORRECTION —> Not only would waiting for the near car to first pass (or to come to a stop) have been far safer […]

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Originally Posted by dystopian ↗

But passing is a common occurrence so a car coming from that direction in that lane was a foreseeable possibility. Speeding is also very common and very foreseeable. These two relatively common occurrences sometimes happening at the same time is a statistical inevitability, one that made crossing with an obstructed view a gamble with his life.

This teen’s aloof reliance on right of way to protect him, rather than waiting for the traffic to pass was a fatal lapse in judgement especially given how light traffic was the effect of this fact on the chances someone would be speeding. Not only would waiting for the near car to pass first been far safer it would’ve also been the polite thing to do (and would’ve added mere second in such light traffic.)

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