Wow, I can’t wrap my head around hitting someone with a car and then berating them before driving away. Psychopathic shit. I hope they catch him.
She didn’t even “come out of nowhere” looks like the driver should have seen her crossing with enough time. That’s assuming he even looked up from his phone
When I was 5, a motorcycle run into me on the sidewalk making me do like a 720 spin while they crashed like 20 meters later. They immediately got up and started cursing at me before they took off when a Kiosk attendant got out. These people have no shame.
Yeah, I’ve experienced similar two times. The worst time was a cyclist really staring at me as I walked, I didn’t change my pace at all and would not have been in his way if he just continued his path and pace. But he did an awkward speed up then tried to break and veered into me, we both fell to the ground and got scraped up and he got so fucking mad. I didn’t say anything, just looked at him with a “are you fucking serious?” Face, and that just made him even more mad so he wrestled with his bike to get it up then started walking after me trying to make me stop. But two other adults had seen it all and intervened, I was just an socially awkward and very skinny teenager at the time so I would have not done well by myself.
Gives me Southern Ontario vibes. Friends have been in the cross walk and when light turned green drivers aggressively accelerate to get you out of the way.
BC at least has a culture of pedestrian rights. You get near the curb and cars stop.
I got so mad at someone doing that to me, almost hit me on a turn. I turned on him and yelled/cursed thru his window, approached his window and pointed at him yelling to “Pay the FUCK attention, asshole”. I so threw him off he parked for 2 mins on a side road before driving off more cautiously. One day it may turn to something more physical, hasn’t yet
Looks like you made a change for the better
Notice how when she gets hit she falls over the hood, does a little spin, and ends up sitting on the ground? It doesn’t even look like her head hit the ground. That sucks.
But if this was any modern truck or SUV, and not a minivan, she might be straight dead. There’s no rolling over the hood of one of those, it’s just grill into face, back of skull into ground, and if you’re really lucky it doesn’t roll over top of you afterwards.
Yeeeeep
Modern SUV & Truck craze is just deadly to pedestrians and… All other vehicles on the road.
It’s insane
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No one seems to be aware that the GODDAMN car does not have right of way in a crosswalk.
Fuckers like this should not be allowed to drive a vehicle. I am betting he was on his phone. That is only way I can explain why he didn’t notice her until the last second.
This kind of situation is probably not that rare. I know a guy who got rear ended at a red light by a minivan while on his bike. Broke both of his legs. While he’s howling in pain on the ground the woman who hit him gets out, stands over him for a second, gets back in the car, and drives away leaving him there to wait for other aid. She never got caught. He guessed that she got out to help, saw how badly she had maimed him, and decided to flee instead.
That girl is limping, I hope she went to the get it check out. Poor thing, just mining her own business to get berated and traumatized by some prick.
Omg that is insane that she just gets up and walks away. I see back and spinal,injuries, injuries on both legs. And possible damage to both arms. This guy needs his license revoked for life and this girl needs medical attention immediately.
From the article:
Police said they were dispatched on Oct. 2 at approximately 8:38 a.m. to assist EMS with an injured teenager in the area of Windhaven Gate and Windstone Road in southwest Airdrie.
Upon arrival, it was determined the teen had been crossing the street in a marked crosswalk when she was hit by a white Dodge Caravan, RCMP wrote in a release.
The 17-year-old sustained minor injuries as a result of the collision.
Police said the driver fled the scene, driving eastbound toward 8 Street.
So it sounds like she got medical attention pretty quickly and her injuries were minor, thankfully. Which is pretty remarkable with how fast the driver was going and how she went flying. But good news for the poor kid. I hope she gets a follow-up though, because sometimes injuries from these things can take hours or days to manifest.
Like you, I hope they catch the driver and he gets his license revoked, and also some charges brought against him. His driving was irresponsible, and leaving the scene after hitting someone is a really shitty move.
I know others were positing that because there’s no audio maybe he was freaked out and upset that she got up and started walking away. But even in that situation who the fuck acts that way?! Maybe, just maybe… She was walking away to get out of the crosswalk and away from the lunatic who just ran her over. It sounds at least equally reasonable that as she is a teenager girl and got hit by an older male driver so he might fear for her safety and wanted to say least get clear of the vehicle and further danger.
It’s remarkable she had minor injuries until you realize that the grill of the vehicle that hit her is designed specifically for pedestrian safety.
Unlike pretty much every SUV in truck on the road, Which would have done significantly more damage or outright killed her from the head injury it would inflict from the same impact.
I hope she gets a follow-up though, because sometimes injuries from these things can take hours or days to manifest.
This 100%. There’s way too many cases of brain and neck injuries that are only noticed much later on, and then the insurance companies will deny they could have occured because of the crash that caused them, leaving people permanently injured and fighting for compensation for years
Fuck sakes Alberta
If that was my kid, Murder was the case that they gave me.
I’ve been in Alberta for a few weeks. Can’t wait for this place to implode. Hate it here. A lot of self entitlement
Are you there permanently?
Nah, I’m going back home. Hate his place… and it’s cold 🥶
I’d like to travel through Lake Louise again once, but that’s about it, only because it’s beautiful. But Alberta has terrible politics.
That’s one thing I gotta say about this place, it is scenic
Why is it always Alberta seeing the USA as a role model when it comes to behaviour and mentality?
It’s the petro-curse is my guess.
If this were the US, then there would have been at least one gun involved.
Just a couple of days ago I had to bang on the hood of a car to get the driver to notice me. I swear to god they get stupider and even more entitled every day.
Maybe they need a baseball bat or a sledgehammer to the hood of the car to wake them the fuck up.
Hunt them down and skin their balls.
Does Canada have a road paint shortage? How is that a crosswalk? It’s barely 2 thin lines! Paint the damn thing so it is clearly visible. I would be scared trying to cross one of those.
EDIT: For the people without reading comprehension: I’m not justifying the dude in any way. Just commenting on the awful crossing marks.
Not an excuse: the lines are clearly visible even if zebra markings would be better. More importantly, while I don’t know Canadian laws, usually pedestrians have the right of way regardless. You can’t just use the excuse that you were going too fast to stop, you can’t be angry at them because you hit them, and you can’t just take off.
They all look more or less like that and there are signs alerting drivers to their presence. They are unmistakable. This guy is a douche.
Alberta
Mostly filling with redneck refugees from the south, looking for oil, avoiding the IRS and spreading their sickness to the rest of Canada. Like 'Murican entitlement such as not caring about pedestrians.
