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submitted 1 month ago by DrCake@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

So I’m walking to an evening class at a local college, it’s dark. There’s a bend just before the junction and as I’m walking across a car comes round way too fast. I had to step back to avoid being hit. I was wearing gloves and as it went past I hit it, no idea why, just instinct and anger.

I carry on walking and I see the driver has pulled over a bit down the road, I was expecting a “sorry are you ok” but she instead shouted “did you just hit my car?”. That set me off, shouting at her that she almost fucking ran me over. Then she says “you don’t have to use that kind of language”, the fucking nerve.

Gave up and just walked off. Wish I’d have smashed the wing mirror or keyed the car or something.

Has anyone else almost been run over and how do you deal with the anger of it?

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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, it absolutely does not.

I was homeless in Seattle for over a year.

And practically nobody camps on the highway, if you mean I5. They camp under it.

If you mean Aurora / Highway 99... sure, lots of people camp right on the sidewalk because its not really a highway within Seattle city limits.

But anyway, yeah, I personally knew a lot of other homeless people that got hit by cars, no media kerfuffle over them.

If you get hit and run, which happens all the time, and you can limp away, basically never gets reported compared to how often that happens.

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