Girl Blindly Running Through an Intersection!

nothing to say.
 
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Rob MacLennan said:
Just bringing this back up because it sounds like a pedestrian got nailed at this intersection today.
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Saw that while out on the bicycle at lunch. Taxi cab hit an old man. Pool of blood and wool hat laying on the wet ground in front of the cab. Was not right at the intersection.
Apparently old man was alive when taken away.

Edit: Apparently it was a woman

http://www.citynews.ca/2013/04/12/woman-hit-by-taxi-in-downtown-toronto/

A woman believed to be in her early 80s has been struck by a taxi on Church Street in downtown Toronto, police say.
It happened around noon on Friday near Gerrard Street East.
The extent of her injuries wasn’t immediately available, but paramedics said she’d be taken to a local trauma centre.
Church is closed between Gerrard and Gould streets for the investigation by Traffic Services.
More to come
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OpenGambit said:
the question that should be asked is not whether the light was green for you when you hit her, its what the light was when she started crossing.

a green light is not licence to run over someone who fell on the street when they were crossing legally, for example.

From looking at other pedestrians, it looks like the light just turned green. You should be looking before proceeding.

its also just unwise driving to speed past a vehicle that is blocking your vision and almost stationary like that. Its an easy way for someone to turn left in front of you, even though this time it was a pedestrian.

In short, I actually think its your fault.
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I agree with the above...specially if you look at the use of the shared parking lane just after he starts up again. I'm surprised he hasn't eaten a door yet :)


SORRY, just read the first page and didn't realize how old this was. My opinion of the situation is still the same though
 
TwistedKestrel said:
If you were a car (e.g. death taxi) she would be dead.



True - pedestrians don't expect cars to be even doing the speed limit in the city. Wouldn't have looked good for the rider.
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Really? The speed limits are stupidly low in the city. I expect everyone do be doing close to double the limit.

Then again, I'm also a moron when I've been out drinking and have been known to wander across intersections without looking. I'm sure it'll kill me one day. I wouldn't blame the driver/rider if I got seriously injured due to my own stupidity in a situation like that.
 
OP good job on avoiding her. Unfortunately in Canada pedestrians > vehicles even the vehicle has right of way.
 
Da fuq? Why did she not obey her signal?

I would've stopped, turn back then flail my hand wildly. Gesturing wtf??

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Rob MacLennan said:
Just bringing this back up because it sounds like a pedestrian got nailed at this intersection today.
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That's really unfortunate, good idea to bump up the video. Hopefully it'll show new/inexperienced riders how quickly bad situations can arise.
 
I can't believe people are actually supporting the pedestrian =/ I mean don't get me wrong, UltrA_09 would have had a wrecked bike and maybe injured himself had he hit her, but he didn't!

Curious question: what happens in court if the accident occurred?
 
油井緋色;1990148 said:
I can't believe people are actually supporting the pedestrian =/ I mean don't get me wrong, UltrA_09 would have had a wrecked bike and maybe injured himself had he hit her, but he didn't!

Curious question: what happens in court if the accident occurred?
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Scanned back a few posts, couldn't find anybody supporting the pedestrian. Are you just inventing something to be outraged about?
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Scan further. There were a lot of posts saying that he was going too fast for conditions.
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Going too fast doesn't support the pedestrian -- it just makes them both wrong in this situation...
 
UJelly said:
The real question is this...

what was she doing outside of the kitchen?
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This post concludes the whole thread.

End of story.

Now, onto more fun things - OP, what was that camera you had there? I'm interested in some sort of inconspicuous recording device like that...
 
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