Probably dressed in dark clothing. Also stupidity. Why cross a road when a vehicle is about to pass by???!

“stupidity” = calling a dead person stupid when you have no idea of what happened.

Well said Buzz.

Horrible news at this time of year. Condolences to the families involved.

“Why cross a road when a vehicle is about to pass by”

According to streetview on Google Earth that is a very straight stretch of the highway with a 100km/hr speed limit.

I think if one thinks about it, there are several reasons why one might step out onto a rural road at 1am.

‘Probably dressed in dark clothing. Also stupidity. Why cross a road when a vehicle is about to pass by???!’

Talk about stupidity. It’s obviously a suicide, dummy.

http://www.iihs.org/research/qanda/pedestrians.html

Some good information on that site about pedestrian deaths in the USA.

Suicide, of course, is the unmentionable as always. However, if one is so inclinded, stepping out in front of a train or large truck would have a lot of certainty attached to it.

Some notes from the above article:

1. Pedestrians comprise about 12 percent of motor vehicle crash deaths each year. Sure higher than I thought!

2. In 2009, more than twice as many male pedestrians were killed as females.

3. In 2009, 37 percent of fatally injured pedestrians 16 and older had blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or above 0.08 percent; the percentage rose to 53 percent for crashes occurring during 9 p.m.-6 a.m

4. Fifteen percent of pedestrian deaths involved drivers with BACs at or above 0.08 percent. (So we might need a don’t walk home after you have had too much to drink law from the sounds of it)

5. Seventy-three percent of all pedestrian deaths in 2009 occurred on major roads, including interstates and freeways.

6. The majority of pedestrian deaths occur in dark or twilight conditions and at locations other than intersections, where vehicle speeds may be higher and where drivers do not expect to have to stop.

The strip of Hwy 7 (AKA Haige Hwy) by Ruby creek sucks at the best of times, if it’s not the cross winds during the morning and early evening, it’s the crappy visibility at night. That area is prone to being unusually dark “like crazy dark” even with clear skies, high beams and road lights don’t really help much. So who knows really what went down except say the driver involved. I know lots of guys avoid that route just because of the factors I have mentioned, add a pedestrian and it can just be ugly. My sympathies to the families on both sides, a loss is just that regardless of the circumstances.

Good find Gus. I was driving through the Hope area this summer and a RCMP pulled me over looking for a gentleman that was suicidal. They said he was found before trying to commit suicide.

Probably a suicide walker. I seen one once as a teenager on Foothills just north of the bridge… walker was walking down the center of the road in that really dark spot… and then basically threw himself into the oncoming pickup coming from the north to south.. the other direction right in front of me… it was the ugliest thing I ever seen.. probably 2am and extremely dark when it happened. A friend of mine Shawn gave the guy mouth to mouth until the ambulance arrived. I don’t know how he did it. I’ll never forget thinking why is that guy walking in the middle of the road, and then suddenly he lurched… Probably more common then most people think. A truck drivers worst nightmare.