Driving By
Posted: Wed 7 December, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 6 Comments »There’s one facet of the story about South Yorkshire being gridlocked this morning due to a dead man on the M1 and a fatal accident on the A1 that’s rather more disturbing than any of the others. It’s this…
the body, which had been struck by a number of vehicles, was found near a footbridge, but it was not yet known if the man had fallen, jumped or been pushed from the bridge
Hang on, “struck by a number of vehicles“? How the hell does anyone in a car hit a body in the road and a) not stop or potentially b) not notice? Humans are bloody big things – they’re going to do damage to your car, regardless of whether they’re already dead or not. I’ve seen the mess a pheasant makes, and the one a deer makes – so I repeat, how the shit do you hit a body and not stop?
The mind boggles…
“Struck by a number of vehicles” doesn’t mean the same things as “struck a number of times by one particular vehicle.”
I agree wholeheartedly. However, that also means that there’s a number of people who managed to drive over/hit a human body and do fuck all about it.
If it were just the one vehicle I could – possibly – understand it a bit. But for several to hit the body, and none of them to stop, report it, or anything? That’s fuckin’ creepy.
It is a bit Shaun of the Dead, isn’t it?
If the motorway was busy the body could have been hit by several vehicles more or less simultaneously (e.g plummets from bridge onto vehicle #1, bounces off vehicle#1 into path of vehicle#2 if then hit a glancing blow by vehilce #3. All the drivers may have stopped & reported it. But if they didn’t then I agree with the previous comments…
An artic driver wouldn’t even know he’d hit something like that, they only begin to notice when you get to something the size of a mini and even then it’s only when the rear wheels of the trailer go thud on the ground afterwards…….I don’t hate truckers much, honest!
Driving in the dark at motorway speed sometimes makes it difficult to see debris/dead people far enough in advance to avoid hitting it/them. I have seen accidents caused by people swerving around objects at speed, I’ve also hit debris because I haven’t been able to swerve.
It could be that the drivers didn’t realise they had hit a human, if the first vehicle was 38 tons then it probably didn’t look like a body when it came out the back…
Or they could just be arseholes, there are plenty of ’em about.