Semi jackknifes to avoid running over child - GIF

**Altair** · Feb 9, 2023, 08:14 AM

Semi jackknifes to avoid running over child.

Previously:

Child on scooter nearly hit by speeding car - GIF
Child nearly hit by truck - GIF
Garbage collector saves kid from oncoming car - GIF
Pedestrian nearly loses her head - GIF
Pedestrian saves bicyclist from speeding car - GIF

**WmRMeyers** · Feb 9, 2023, 08:52 AM

Driver risked his own live to try to save that kid. Glad it worked, looks like it was pretty close!

**Frank S** · Feb 9, 2023, 12:14 PM

It's really hard to say which decision may have been better. after watching the video ha may have avoided hitting the pedestrian and not have jackknifed by easing up on his brakes and swerving to the right. The problem with that analogy though is. When he first saw the child and initially hit his brakes, it had not yet reached the center of the lane, he was in. The shoulder may not have been level with the road, and it may not have been wide enough to cleat the lane the child was in.
Pedestrians either children or adults are unpredictable once they hear the screeching sounds of a vehicle coming at them. Fortunately, this one stopped in its tracks.

**WmRMeyers** · Feb 9, 2023, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Frank S

It's really hard to say which decision may have been better. after watching the video ha may have avoided hitting the pedestrian and not have jackknifed by easing up on his brakes and swerving to the right. The problem with that analogy though is. When he first saw the child and initially hit his brakes, it had not yet reached the center of the lane, he was in. The shoulder may not have been level with the road, and it may not have been wide enough to cleat the lane the child was in.
Pedestrians either children or adults are unpredictable once they hear the screeching sounds of a vehicle coming at them. Fortunately, this one stopped in its tracks.

They're as likely to run into the new danger zone as out. Maybe more likely.

**Frank S** · Feb 9, 2023, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by WmRMeyers

They're as likely to run into the new danger zone as out. Maybe more likely.

Pedestrians crossing the Major highways in Kuwait got so bad there for a while the Government put out a memorandum that a driver accidently striking a pedestrian even if the person was killed, no fine would be issued.
It was a pretty safe bet that anyone driving a medium to large sized truck would be an expat. The Kuwaiti male children ranging in ages from 13 to 25 had a game they played by running out on the Ring Road, "same as our Interstates", in front of a truck to make them swerve into another lane causing an accident. the owner of the company where I was senior engineer, was riding on one of our Half lorries when his driver started to swerve and miss a boy. Saad Told him to just run over the idiot, He didn't but stopped they got out when Saad saw the kid was his oldest boy, he ripped his ghutra off his head rolled it into a rope and gave the boy a good thrashing. Hauled him to a police station and told them to lock the kid up for a month. They don't argue with a High Sheik when he tells a police Col. to lock his own kid up in a cell.

**odd one** · Feb 10, 2023, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by WmRMeyers

They're as likely to run into the new danger zone as out. Maybe more likely.

Just like squirrels.

**WmRMeyers** · Feb 10, 2023, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by odd one

Just like squirrels.

Squirrels have the excuse that they're very short-sighted, and have brains the size of a small walnut. Human kids don't. But they do believe they're immortal and impervious. Which they're not.

I'm told that when I was about 4, I walked into the house shaking my head and muttering. "I don't understand it. I just don't understand it." Grandma asked what I didn't understand. She says I told her that I walked out in the street and didn't get run over by a car. She lived at the intersection of Leland and Leffingwell Roads in South Whittier. Both very busy streets, but Leffingwell was a 4-lane in the early 60's. She'd always told me that if I walked out into the street I'd get run over by a car. She was a crossing guard for the school down the road, and had one student die in her arms after being hit by a car, and prevented a few more of those accidents. It's a wonder that any child survives childhood if they're all like I was back then.