My 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, rega

My 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...