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Originally Posted by wdb
Many many moons ago I was driving through a small borough on my way somewhere. Early evening, just after sunset. Traffic moves at about 35MPH in the area. There was a guy on the sidewalk, walking oddly, waving his arms, talking, yelling. Pretty obviously he had some screws loose.
On my way back from somewhere, maybe 20 minutes later, I went back through the same area. The loony guy stepped off the curb directly into the path of the car in front of me; the driver had literally zero chance to slow down. Loony man bounced up onto the hood and his head struck the windshield on the driver's side. The car stopped and loony guy fell onto the street.
I hung around to report what I saw.
The driver of that car was a youngish father with two boys in the back seat of the car. He was apoplectic, unconsolable. Crying, heaving, curled up on the curb, the entire time I was there. Traumatized.
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I'm so sorry you had to witness that but I hope your recollection of what happened helped the driver. Even given the statistics about accidents being well known to all drivers, it just seems like when something so daily, so normal as driving makes us hurt an other even when we can't be blamed for it, it fucks with our head badly.