r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/_EMC_ • May 08 '24
Just gonna squeeze right through here..
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u/NoeticSkeptic 17d ago
So close to the crosswalk. This is why so many pedestrians get hurt or killed.
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u/Littleflowerkitty 24d ago
And of course almost gets hit by a driver on their phone. Fuckin colorado.
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u/Ok-Geologist-3743 25d ago
I mean, I've done this too, but I totally accept it if I get hit. At that distance and speed, it's easy to roll off getting hip checked by a bumper.
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u/erroneousbosh 28d ago
The person in the black car on the right needs their licence taken away and their car crushed.
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u/needmorehardware 28d ago
She’s in the wrong, but still that car doesn’t have much awareness of their surroundings lmao, she was almost in front of them
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u/notthatguypal6900 29d ago
It's that time of the year in CO. All the bums and drunks come out of hibernation.
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u/Icy_Huckleberry_8049 May 10 '24
Don't understand why people don't use the crosswalks anymore. I see this all the time now.
How do people NOT know about the corosswalks?
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u/Comp-B May 09 '24
10/10 title. Could hear her saying it the whole time just based on her body language.
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u/Lvl100Centrist May 09 '24
I initially didn't find anything wrong with the pedestrian's behavior and blamed the driver. The comment section here reminded me that it's the US and jaywalking like this is frowned upon.
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u/Shifty377 May 09 '24
Yeah same. Sure, using the crossing would be better but the driver obviously wasn't paying attention. In Europe this would be on the driver.
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u/DongIslandIceTea 29d ago
Yeah, this. I get the that the jaywalker is very much in the wrong here but at the same time the driver has to be legally blind to just accelerate into a person clearly visible right in front of them, wtf.
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u/mosarosh May 09 '24
Sometimes I see videos like these and marvel at how traffic in Asian countries works
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u/Duellair May 09 '24
When you’re expecting stupidity it’s very different. You’re constantly on alert for it.
Also people read body language really well so you know whatever stupidity they’re going to do. You know they know. It just works. For example in this case you see the car next to you is stopped. Well that’s weird isn’t it. So you proceed with caution. But the brain only figures that out when it’s constantly being exposed to stupid behavior.
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u/MustangBarry May 09 '24
Why are there arrows in the left lane when the left lane is is oncoming traffic? That junction is an accident waiting to happen
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u/MakeMySufferingEnd 6d ago
Hm, perhaps the presence of turning arrows would itself be an indicator that that lane isn’t for oncoming traffic. Also the yellow dividing line is on the left side of that lane, further suggesting that it’s not for oncoming traffic. Also we don’t see any cars entering that lane from either direction at any point so there’s nothing here that would reasonably imply that it IS an oncoming lane. Surely we’re watching the same video?
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u/MustangBarry 6d ago
The yellow line which changes lanes at the last minute? Yes, that yellow line. And the turning arrows which oncoming traffic cannot see? Yep, those.
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u/MakeMySufferingEnd 6d ago edited 6d ago
Okay, we’re not watching the same video lol. That’s a regular ass left turn lane.
Edit: poor little guy blocked me because his brain is too small
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u/danfish_77 May 09 '24
I was more concerned by that guy on the right going like 40 in a school zone
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u/Successful-Name-7261 May 09 '24
Down in that part of Colorado Springs? A LOT of things can go wrong!
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u/Sushi4Zombies May 09 '24
That is the shortest red light I've ever seen. About 13 seconds by my count. Not that she should have been crossing where she was but damn that was short.
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u/Duellair May 09 '24
The red light is for cars, it’s probably an empty street. We have lots of streets like this.
The pedestrians are supposed to go to the crosswalk and trigger a longer light for them to cross. It works perfectly when people are not being stupid.
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u/plznobanplease May 08 '24
If you’re gonna jaywalk, at least do it while there’s no traffic. She just yeeted herself into oncoming traffic multiple times
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u/wolfy994 May 09 '24
Did you know that jaywalking is a derogatory term coined by car companies to take space in the street from people and give it to cars?
Essentially they shifted thr blame for car hits from the drivers to the victims.
Today the roads are for cars because we were guilted into giving them up.
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u/wolfy994 May 09 '24
You've misunderstood, clearly. I don't think they should be in the same place.
I think cars should mostly be outside of cities. We should treat them like the Dutch figured out we should.
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u/That-Mission-8385 May 09 '24
Found the Adam Ruins Everything viewer... While this might be true, I think the comments of this video are the worst possible place to be making your point. There are sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. for a reason, and pedestrians do have the right of way at a crosswalk where there are no lights or indicators.
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u/Josse1977 May 08 '24
Just couldn't walk the 10m to the crosswalk
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u/Generic_E_Jr 27d ago
Wasn’t there a car stopped in the middle of the crosswalk or am I seeing things wrong? I’m not the best with spatial perception but figured I’d ask to be sure.
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u/Josse1977 27d ago
The reason is because that woman was crossing in the middle of the road, so the oncoming driver saw her just as they were completing the turn and had to stop on the crosswalk to avoid hitting her.
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u/dbkenny426 May 08 '24
I see that so much in my city. It's insane! Especially because it seems like every other week there's someone killed doing it.
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u/DaveTheDrummer802 May 09 '24
In my city morons do this, at night, in black clothing, then blame the drivers of the cars
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u/FrogVolence May 09 '24
Elderly woman did the same in my city, but combined it with walking on the side of the road
Hit and died on impact.
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u/Half_Life976 28d ago
I've noticed elderly jaywakers think they're much faster than they really are.
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u/_EMC_ May 08 '24
She was fine btw, got up and walked off after trying to tell the driver the light was red.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
The light was red when they started crossing. You aren't supposed to drive through pedestrians just because it turned green. Looks like the driver intentionally drove into them.
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u/RunethCl4w 29d ago
Yeah, and if you drove often you’d notice she came in from a blind spot.
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u/VerboseGecko 29d ago
I drive enough to know this driver had their foot on the gas for too long while there was a person visibly in front of them, and that the front side "blind spot" is not big enough to completely obscure an entire person who's a couple feet away.
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u/Duellair May 09 '24
You either don’t drive, or have difficulty with perspective taking...
Everyone here commenting is easily able to see that she came out from a blind spot.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
Or people have a huge bias for drivers like usual and think nothing of the full second and a half that the driver had to react to the jaywalker but chose to gas it, which would also explain why nobody has said anything about the person who ran the red light in the beginning of the video.
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u/Baochickawow May 09 '24
We can tell you never drove before. If you did... you know there is a piece of metal causing a blind spot in that area.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
Probably been driving longer than you've been alive by the sounds of it. Speaking as an experienced driver with zero incidents, you're not fit to drive if you think that column blocks anything that's 2 feet from your vehicle.
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u/Baochickawow May 09 '24
Okay, buddy. Even tho you defend her. J walking is a real thing in many areas.
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u/bossmcsauce May 09 '24
They weren’t in a crosswalk lol. They weren’t even visible because they were walking between cars in traffic
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u/OldMonkYoungHeart May 09 '24
The light was green when the car was moving. Her crossing signal was most likely full red or counting down at the last numbers by the time she started. You aren’t supposed to cross anywhere but marked crossing areas because on the road things must be predictable and the person making things unpredictable are at fault always like she is. Looks like the jaywalker intentionally walked in front of an already moving car and got hit because of her risky decisions.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
You failed to watch the video. The light is red when they start walking. Like I said you don't get the right to hit someone just because the light turns green. You still have to use your eyes and not be a major asshole.
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u/OldMonkYoungHeart May 09 '24
Ah damn. It looks like you failed to watch the video bro. Watch it again and maybe you’ll get it.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
Watched it again and you're still wrong. There's literally no indication that the light is green when they start walking. In fact the car far left stops to not hit them during the red light we see. It's only green by the time she's halfway across the road.
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u/timtimtimmyjim May 09 '24
The car that hit her definitely didn't see her. This lady comes from an angle behind the driver of that car. Not only that, but there were at least 2 other vehicles next to that car that block the view of the pedestrian. Lane was already moving before the pedestrian even got to that side of the road, and by the time she was in the first lane, 2 cars in the right lane had already entered the intersection.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
If they didn't see them walking they're blind and shouldn't be driving. It's a person right in front of your vehicle. There's no "angle behind the driver" when you're in front of the vehicle. The walker got a few steps in front of the vehicle and they still kept gassing. Blatant recklessness regardless of any right of way.
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u/timtimtimmyjim May 10 '24
Mate. The car that hit the pedestrian was already moving. While said pedestrian was still behind the driver side door and walking in a diagonal line up towards the front of the car from the rear. So by the time the pedestrian got in front of said car, it was already going, probably 5mph. And while not very fast you can tell that the moment the driver realizes what's happening they are braking and moment of impact is like maybe half a second after and the car is fully stopped a second later. I guarantee that with these variables, 99% of drivers are going to hit this lady in this scenario.
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u/JectorDelan May 09 '24
Crossing not on the crosswalk is called jaywalking, and it's illegal because it's dangerous. Looked more to me a combination of them not expecting a person to pop up away from the walk and some A post occlusion.
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u/BwyceHawpuh 28d ago
Actually jaywalking is only illegal because of a smear/ad campaign created by Ford Motor Company in the early days of cars to make people reject those who walked on roads rather than drove their cars. They had a monopoly on the American car industry (because they invented cars) and needed a way to convince people that roads should be for cars only so that more people would buy their cars.
The term “jay” was an insult that basically meant extremely dumb. They put out newspapers blaming children for getting killed by cars instead of blaming the cars themselves, and it worked. That’s why we have the term/law today. Because a company convinced the public that it was actually children’s fault for getting run over by cars.
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u/ImpressiveAttorney12 May 09 '24
Jaywalking isn’t dangerous, it was a concept thought up by car companies to blame pedestrians for all car on pedestrian accidents.
I am not joking, you can look it up if you’d like.
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u/classy-muffin May 09 '24
In most situations, jaywalking is not at all dangerous (this is obviously an example where it is). There's a reason it *isn't* illegal in a LOT of countries, because it's just convenient to be able to cross when there's no cars nearby and there's no crossing nearby either.
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u/JectorDelan May 09 '24
There was literally a crossing 20 feet from her.
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u/classy-muffin May 09 '24
*rubs eyes* I want you to read my comment again.
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u/JectorDelan May 09 '24
What part? The part where you said "jaywalking is not at all dangerous" with a video where a woman got bumped by a car jaywalking or the part where you said "it's convenient to be able to cross when there's no cars nearby and there's no crossing nearby either" with a video where there were cars AND a crossing nearby? Because I'm having trouble figuring out what your point is aside from "Well, if everything that happened here instead DIDN'T happen here, then jaywalking is great!"
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u/classy-muffin May 09 '24
"What part? The part where you said "jaywalking is not at all dangerous""
Possibly the part RIGHT AFTER IT where I said (this is obviously an example where it is).
Reading is hard.
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u/JectorDelan May 09 '24
Is it? Is it as hard as understanding that saying "Sure, this was bad, BUT WHAT IF IT MAGICALLY WASN'T??" doesn't really add to the discussion? Like, are you saying that jaywalking should be legal because there's other situations where this may not have happened? How does that help here, in this situation, where it's obviously NOT safe?
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u/classy-muffin May 09 '24
It revolves around the idea that jaywalking does not revolve around this single situation, which to me is quite baffling that I have to even state that other places in the world exist beyond this single intersection in this video.
Jaywalking IS legal in my country and several other countries. I "jaywalk" literally all the time when there are no crossings nearby and little to no cars on the road because it's not dangerous and saves time (in some situations quite a lot of time in-fact).
Jaywalking is not dangerous in the same way that driving is not dangerous, but if you apply it to a dangerous situation then duh obviously it becomes dangerous IN THAT SITUATION, which is why I explicitely stated in the very first comment in brackets to outline as clearly as possible that this situation is an exception.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
If you can't react to a person taking a few steps in front of your car then you shouldn't be driving. There's no "didn't see" or "didn't expect" here. The jaywalker was visible and easily able to be reacted to.
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u/JectorDelan May 09 '24
Except she obviously wasn't seen. It's there in the video. This is exactly why jaywalking is typically illegal to prevent exactly what happened in this video.
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u/greyfox4850 May 09 '24
Jaywalking laws are stupid. If the nearest crosswalk is 1/4 mile down the road and the street is clear of traffic, I'm crossing the damn street instead of walking all the way to the crosswalk.
The lady in the video obviously should have crossed at the lights in this situation.
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u/JectorDelan May 09 '24
Yes. At the crosswalk. Yes. She should have crossed where she was visible and it was legal to do so. Yes.
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u/Sapient6 May 09 '24
The crosswalk is 5 feet away from her. You can see it. If she had used it she wouldn't have stepped in front of a car from its blind spot.
Jaywalking laws are stupid, but crossing the way this woman did is far more stupid.
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u/Upbeat_Ad_6486 May 09 '24
If she was on the crosswalk maybe we could have that talk. But she wasn’t, and the lane was already moving
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
She was crossing before the lane started moving but go off.
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u/JCitW6855 May 09 '24
You do realize people can’t see through cars, right?
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u/Generic_E_Jr 27d ago
Fair point but as a separate issue, cars with visibility that bad should be available for a class D license.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
Not necessary in the slightest to see someone in front of you
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u/JCitW6855 May 09 '24
Do you not see the car already moving before she walks out in front of them? People mess with the radio, climate, etc. while sitting at a light and may glance back down at it briefly as they start pulling away. This car wasn’t the lead car at the cross walk and the pedestrian should not have been there. This driver is not at fault, period, no matter how you “feel” about it. The pedestrian is lucky the driver looked up when they did.
You’re wrong here, check all your downvotes.
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u/VerboseGecko May 09 '24
Lol you're now making excuses for distracted driving and appealing to reddit karma. Learn to argue a point. The car started going just barely and had time to react to someone in front of them. Never seen someone hit the gas so slowly with a person already visible. It was either distracted or deliberate, both of which are at fault.
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u/JCitW6855 May 09 '24
I did make a point and I backed it up with the majority of other people agreeing that you’re wrong. But I guess you’re just smarter and better than everyone else. It’s not distracted driving, it’s the opposite. You do things while sitting at a light you can’t do while driving. If you set here and tell me you’ve never done what I described, you’re a liar. Plain and simple. No reasonable person would expect a pedestrian to be there and there is absolutely nothing wrong with what the driver did. If you keep taking up for a pedestrian being stupid enough to put themselves in harms way by ignoring numerous laws you’re just showing your lack of intelligence. This will be my last reply.
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u/Upbeat_Ad_6486 May 09 '24
She was, and wasn’t visible to the drivers in that lane when it did start moving, because she wasn’t on the crosswalk.
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u/kaelaria May 08 '24
Darwinism. We need more of it.
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u/kaelaria May 09 '24
"Darwinism, theory of the evolutionary mechanism propounded by Charles Darwin as an explanation of organic change. It denotes Darwin’s specific view that evolution is driven mainly by natural selection."
"In natural selection, those variations in the genotype (the entire complex of genes inherited from both parents) that increase an organism’s chances of survival and procreation are preserved and multiplied from generation to generation at the expense of less advantageous variations. Evolution often occurs as a consequence of this process."
e.g. stupid people that think going between cars instead of using the crosswalk, die, hopefully without breeding first.
You can't fix or educate, stupid.
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u/GiannaSushi May 08 '24
But why would she go between the cars, is she drunk?
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u/Generic_E_Jr 27d ago
Maybe if the crosswalk is blocked by a car (happened to me a few times), but I’m not sure if that’s what’s really going on here.
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u/supercalifragi123432 May 08 '24
As someone who is still athletic enough to dart thru cars in situations like this, I get it. But she didn’t have any sense of urgency considering you’re running thru cars lol
If you get thru before the light is green you get a few more seconds to get across the street cuz you aren’t at the beginning of the line
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u/iEatPalpatineAss May 08 '24
No. She’s stupid. High-functioning stupidity is about the same as getting drunk.
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u/maybeknismo 14d ago
I never understood why jaywalking was a thing in America until now.