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Originally Posted by 33girl
OK, I've got one. Many moons ago, I was driving on a busy street in Pittsburgh. I decided to make a LEGAL left turn onto a side street. I checked, all was clear. Then a cop car came SPEEDING up the street - no flashers, no siren - and hit me on the right side as I was turning.
I was the one who got the ticket. When I inquired as to why - since the turn I made was perfectly legal - he said that I shouldn't be doing that on this busy street and that I shouldn't be surprised I got hit.
Does everyone like that one better?
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Not really because there is no way you can prevent a officer of the law from being an idiot and using his privilege to focus the blame onto you. I argue that he is more at fault since he has training for handling a vehicle at high speed and made no indication of his presence or to avoid an accident.
Okay I have one. Pedestrian all in black, texting and listening to their headphones, darting out from nowhere on a dark stormy night on an unlit street no where near a crosswalk. Now that has elements of prevention on the part of a pedestrian and due care of a motorist driving with headlights on, alert, sober, and say below 25 doesn't mean the pedestrian isn't hit by a car, but they didn't do their part to be responsible while sharing the road. They didn't deserve to be hit but they also didn't take precautions that are expected nor were they a subject of opportunity. This has happened in my town and the driver is not found at fault when the behavior and actions of the pedestrian were assessed as a contributing factor.
We also have the dumbest bicycle laws, forreal, and most campus accidents are a result of a bicyclist or a skateboarder who speeds into traffic without giving due care and stopping while coming down a hill that is a pedestrian walk way and not for cars. Pedestrians get hit by people with a non-motorized mode of transportation and they also get cited for texting and being a hazard. There's responsibility and there's freak accidents. Sometimes shit just happens out of our control.
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