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Two Distracted Guys, One Nasty Crash

This video shows how quick things can go wrong, especially when more road users are not paying enough attention to the traffic around them.
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For starters, I’d mention the rider, who obviously did not take enough precautionary measures when he took off in the intersection. A quick glance in front of him would have probably allowed him to spot the pedestrian who was planning to cross the street. Even more, laying a bit of a heavy hand on the gas did not help, either.

As for the pedestrian, I’m pretty sure there’s not a single city on earth without the kind of guys who never look left or right before they start crossing the street. They only know that the pedestrian crossing is their territory and ignore pretty much everything else. I happen to know a case of a guy being hit full on by a speeding ambulance with flashing lights, whose wailing sirens could be heard from half a mile away.

He simply did not care, and probably though that the ambulance will stop and let him pass, so he stepped on the crossing, only to be hit and killed by the ambulance. As unfortunate as such events are, they show how stupid some people can be at times.

So I’d say this is a common-fault crash, but will not pass judgement as to who has the biggest role in it. By the way, this crash doesn’t seem to have happened in Romania. By the other way “caralho” is one very common Brazilian “4-letter word”, often referring to male genitalia. Ride safe!

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