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Pedestrian nearly loses her head.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...630#post205761
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...508#post212236
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...424#post150913
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...098#post195329
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...958#post194817

Wow, she's very fortunate. I bet that hurt, nonetheless.

Maybe, just maybe, it might be prudent to watch for oncoming traffic before running across an active street.

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Originally Posted by Gadgeteer

Maybe, just maybe, it might be prudent to watch for oncoming traffic before running across an active street.

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I bet the camera car stopped to let her cross and the debacle happened, I drive for a living and see it on a regular basis, not the near tragedy in this clip but potentially bad endings

They stop, she feels obliged and hurries to get out of the way of the waiting car and.....

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Originally Posted by bob_3000

I bet the camera car stopped to let her cross and the debacle happened, I drive for a living and see it on a regular basis, not the near tragedy in this clip but potentially bad endings

They stop, she feels obliged and hurries to get out of the way of the waiting car and.....

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I'll bet you're are correct. This is, exactly, why laws are written that require a second vehicle to stop to honor the one that has stopped for a pedestrian.

If you look in the bottom left corner it looks like a traffic cone. The vehicle recording may have been setting in a construction zone.

Looks like something our of a Jackie Chan movie! She might have gotten a broken foot / ankle out of it but she'll live to tell her kids / grandkids about it!

Why the urgency to cross the road??? Is she going to lose the lottery? Or falls few seconds behind an appointment? Why people don't protect and preserve their precious bodies thinking that modern medicine and doctors can fix everything!

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Originally Posted by mansworld

Why people don't protect and preserve their precious bodies thinking that modern medicine and doctors can fix everything!

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Yup, she wasn't thinking 'I'll try to get out of everybody's way and get on with my day', she was thinking 'screw it, if I get hit someone else will fix me' makes total sense.

Not so sure she was thinking about anything other than getting across the street if even that much thought process was going on in her head. She was wearing an apron so perhaps she worked at some food establishment there, when slowing the video down to .25 you can just see her turn her head to the left as she ran past what ever vehicle was filming the video, tried to plant her feet to stop but slipped on the pavement.
As was mentioned it looked like she may have suffered a broken foot or ankle when her foot struck whatever was mounted on the side of the truck frame that spun her around. If the box truck driver hadn't been had quick reflexes to enable him to stop as suddenly as he did then 2 people would have had very ruined days Her's, over instantly his would last a lifetime

When I was driving mixer trucks I saw people do all kinds of stupid s#!t because they just did not pay attention.
Saw some lady in downtown Portland almost push her baby carriage right in front of a MAX train. If one of the guys working a muck rake hadn't grabbed her arm and stopped her both her and the kid would have been toast. The stupid part is she yelled at him saying something to the effect of " get your filthy hands off of me!" the guy had to actually point out the TRAIN that he kept her from walking in front of.
Another time I watched some dumbass drive for 2 blocks around "ROAD CLOSED" signs and barricades to turn right into a 3 foot wide ditch that had been just filled with CDF (for those that don't know CDF is Controlled Density Fill a one sack cement mix for filling ditches) Then the idiot gets out of his car and starts screaming at the guy holding the chute about how there should have been some kind of sign warning him about the hole he just parked in.
As Ron White says " you just can't fix stupid".
I could almost fill a book with all the stupid stuff I saw in the 20 years of truck driving (mixers and dump truck w/pup trailer) locally. I'm guessing over the road drivers could fill volumes with the idiocy the encounter on the road.

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Originally Posted by drivermark

When I was driving mixer trucks I saw people do all kinds of stupid s#!t because they just did not pay attention.
Saw some lady in downtown Portland almost push her baby carriage right in front of a MAX train. If one of the guys working a muck rake hadn't grabbed her arm and stopped her both her and the kid would have been toast. The stupid part is she yelled at him saying something to the effect of " get your filthy hands off of me!" the guy had to actually point out the TRAIN that he kept her from walking in front of.
Another time I watched some dumbass drive for 2 blocks around "ROAD CLOSED" signs and barricades to turn right into a 3 foot wide ditch that had been just filled with CDF (for those that don't know CDF is Controlled Density Fill a one sack cement mix for filling ditches) Then the idiot gets out of his car and starts screaming at the guy holding the chute about how there should have been some kind of sign warning him about the hole he just parked in.
As Ron White says " you just can't fix stupid".
I could almost fill a book with all the stupid stuff I saw in the 20 years of truck driving (mixers and dump truck w/pup trailer) locally. I'm guessing over the road drivers could fill volumes with the idiocy the encounter on the road.

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The sad part of it is they vote and reproduce with the same cognition