You just never know….

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Watch the man on the left walking, crossing the road where there is no car.
It is so definite that the coast on the left is clear, and safe to cross. Any person would see it is safe….

Pedestrian crash
Traffic cam footage

Take nothing for granted, not even for a split second! Be grateful for every living minute.

Thanks Ronnie

Update: For those of you who don’t read the comments, the guy survived. Details here

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57 thoughts on “You just never know….”

  9. Actually, believe it or not, he walked away with only very minor injuries. There was an indentation in the roof of the car, so when it rolled over him, it barely touched him.

  11. This looks to be real, the PT cruiser is in the frame the whole time. It looks like the light had changed and the PT was going for it on yellow or just turned red, and the other car was coming up on the intersection as the light changed. At least thats what it looks like.

  12. Safe? Sure looks to me like the light is red or was turning red for the traffic traveling parallel to the pedestrian. That means the now dead jaywalker would unlikely have had a “walk” indicator on the crosswalk sign. Hardly what I would call “clearly safe.”

    Not saying he had it coming, and its obvious that someone ran a red light. The safe money says the car that wound up smashing the jaywalker had a green light.

  13. he would have been hit by the car anyway. The car coming in from the right would have gone straight over the crossing and got him before he reached the pavement.

    It’s his own fault, darwin in action

  15. It looks pretty real… the PT appears to run a red light, if you’ll notice the other traffic comes to a stop. The other car enters the intersection from the right. The guy isn’t walking in the crosswalk, but you can see he moves to the left and starts to run right when he gets hit. The 2nd car appears to roll over him and he’s likely the “lump” in the road to the right over the overturned car.

  16. What are you talking about Derek? There is no jump cut and the guy dissapears because he got hit by the car and dragged under it. What did you expect to see? An explosion of blood and guts?

  17. Also to St. Splattergut – The PT cruiser is running a red light, that’s clear because all traffic going the same way as the PT is stopped or stopping. The other car (or mini van) is coming from the right where it was prolly anticipating a light change from Red to Green so it was keeping it previous speed as it got to the light hoping to catch it at Green and continue thier current rate of acceleration.

  19. The guy doesn’t disappear; you can see him rolling away in the wake of the car that ran the red light.

    The car that it collides with is the beige/gold PT cruiser that is the last car to enter the intersection in the direction that the unlucky pedestrian is walking.

  26. if you watch the grass about 5 millimeters (on my screen) in front of the front bumper where the rolled car comes to a stop there is stuff. I unfortunately believe this stuff is the remains of that hapless pedestrian. It would help if this video was playing at real time speed. Watching the way everything move it is obvious this is sped up about 75-100% above normal.

    The cars involved are the one you see going from foreground to background on the lower right at the beginning of the video and one crossing right to left that you don’t see until after the collision. the one that rolls over our unfortunate person is the one crossing right to left. That car clips the car moving toward the background and the rest we can see.

    Just remember what can happen when you run a red light.

    Via Con Dios, Senor

  27. check it out closer, even if the accident didn’t occur, he would be walking directly into the path of the oncoming car, plus is disappears from plain view. Get video forensics on the job. 80/20 it didn’t happen that way. my .02

  29. It’s real.

    “There is no jump cut” The pedestrian is knocked down and the car rolls over him. He is lying on the ground in the last few frames.

    According to the original article everyone survived.

  30. Derek: This is footage from a real accident. It has been featured on several television shows in the past – RealTV, World’s Most Shocking (insert event here), etc. There is no jump cut.

    Splatt: The PT Cruiser ran the red light at the intersection and was struck by a vehicle who had the right-of-way, approaching the intersection from off-camera.

  31. You have to watch this carefully: You can see it’s at a inter-section, where the right hand road is obscured by the camera angle, you then have to realise that this is taken from a few seconds prior to the accident happening.
    The ‘victim’ car is trying to cross the inter-section, but gets nailed by the PT Cruiser running the red light, when the two cars collide, the PT launches the other car into a flip spin where it then smashes into the person crossing the road, you actually see him/her get catapulted away from the vehicle to then have the car land on top of them, then roll over and land on them on its roof.
    Like I say, you do have to look very carefully, it’s all there though.

  37. Pedestrian is fake. Collision is probably real.

    Why would that person be walking that way if the light is red. Even if the car that ran the red light wasn’t there he would have still been hit. You would think the car going through the green would say ‘wtf’ and slow down so he didnt hit the pedestrian (if he was really there)

  39. This video is at least a year old and was much discussed when it was first released. Supposedly the person that was rolled over did not die. That and the fact you always need to stay very alert when crossing a busy street is is all you really need to know.

  40. I agree with muttleyh. And, unfortunately that means that the pedestrian was crossing against the light. So, the line that says, “any person would see it is safe” isn’t true. You shouldn’t cross against a light – no matter how clear it is.

  41. Perhaps “any person would see it’s safe”, but a pedestrian that was actually paying attention would see the PT Cruiser heading *right towards him* and dodge out of the way.

    Not that I’m not unobservant sometimes… And it’s definitely the driver’s fault… still — “be prepared” and “make your own luck” aren’t just mindless slogans.

  42. If you look frame by frame, impact occurs at frame 47. After that, there is no indication that the pedestrian was thrown. Starting at frame 53, you can see an object underneath the rolling vehicle, which is similar in size and color to the backpack being carried by the pedestrian. From all indications from the images, the vehicle rolled on top of the pedestrian, and since there’s no sign of the pedestrian in the crosswalk, its logical to assume the pedestrian was dragged or pushed by the rolling vehicle.

  47. It’s real and the guy is very lucky and relatively un-injured. When the vehicle rolls over him, the part that was smashed in by the wreck is over him creating a little pocket for him not to get smashed. Saw it on one of those shocking video shows and they followed it with the information of the guy living…

  48. I walk everywhere, and I hate to see a guy flattened, but Ped was crossing against the light- well at the very very end of it maybe. I wouldn’t do that on a road that big and apparently fast. I rarely do it at all- it’s just not worth it.

    Drivers go crazy when they think they might have to wait a minute or two, which is why the assholes (speeder vs. light-runner) in the cars collided in the first place. Don’t put yourself out in front of them.

  49. One does wonder how someone can be “drug” under a car that completely flips over. I can see where it’d look fake. Of course snopes has “never” been wrong… *Cough*

  50. You the heck cares? it didnt happen to you and it never will no matter how much you wish so get over it and move on!

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