SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Anyone who drives a car will understand how hard it is to see anything though a sheet of glass in the pitch black when it is being bombarded with rain and the inside is steaming up quicker than the demister setting on your fan can handle.
Exactly, and that's without considering that buildings, trees, and even parked vehicles can throw shadows across a road that can conceal unlit road users until the last second. Wet roads can be shiny with reflected light which further reduces visibility. Then you have to consider a driver may not be familiar with the area or the road layout. They might be looking for a specific house number on a street or scanning for a road they need to turn into, or might be looking at a road sign. No-one drives with their eyes on their direction of travel all the time, as you need to be looking around at other things too.
A girl I know jaywalked into a road between two parked high roof vans at night, whilst looking at her phone instead of where she was going. Next thing she's in hospital with a fractured skull and other injuries that looked like she'd done twelve rounds with Mike Tyson in the ring. Entirely her fault, and no action taken against the driver who hit her. She was totally invisible until the last second by which time it was too late. The vehicle that hit her weighed about 12 tons and she was extremely lucky she got thrown away from it rather than under it by the impact.