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It can be very very hard to spot someone in all black clothing walking in the same direction at traffic beside the road. That's what causes these cases to go fr
by ApolloFortyNine 7y ago
It can be very very hard to spot someone in all black clothing walking in the same direction at traffic beside the road. That's what causes these cases to go from criminal acts to be classified as an accident.
>Blaming pedestrian choices instead of examining root causes just excuses and justifies the unacceptable status quo.
It of course varies wildly by case if the pedestrian can be faulted at all. In my examples, I would argue yes. If crossing at a crosswalk, with the light, and someone making a right turn hits them? It'd be different.
- mikepurvis 7y agoMy experience is limited, but from what I can tell from my local coverage in Kitchener ON, it's rare that a driver is faulted for hitting a person walking, regardless of the circumstances. And even when a driver is charged following a collision, when you follow those up a few months later, they all end up dropped or being settled— either way, the person driving is back on the road almost immediately. But regardless of the legal story, the real judgment begins when media coverage uses the passive voice and insists that everything is an accident, rather than a collision, see: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/03/28/how-coverage-of-pedestrian-fatalities-dehumanizes-victims-and-absolves-drivers/ https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/03/28/how-coverage-of-pedes...