I haven’t experienced anything like 5-10 close calls per year. I’ve experienced about 3-5 in my life so far. I’d expect about 1 in 100 or so of incidents as close or closer to be actual hits, and that may be overestimating. In every case that I can remember, there were at least two factors that (narrowly, but quite definitely) prevented being hit. Even if they had, none of the incidents were likely to have been fatal and probably not even very injurious.
The only pedestrian-car collision I’ve ever personally seen was a child running directly across a road in front of a speeding car from between parked cars on their side of the road.
If the child wasn’t running, the driver would likely have had time to swerve. If there were no parked cars, they would likely have seen the child approaching the road. If the car was being driven at a normal speed for the road, the driver may have had more time to stop or evade. Fortunately the child suffered no injuries beyond abrasions and bruises.
I haven’t experienced anything like 5-10 close calls per year. I’ve experienced about 3-5 in my life so far. I’d expect about 1 in 100 or so of incidents as close or closer to be actual hits, and that may be overestimating. In every case that I can remember, there were at least two factors that (narrowly, but quite definitely) prevented being hit. Even if they had, none of the incidents were likely to have been fatal and probably not even very injurious.
The only pedestrian-car collision I’ve ever personally seen was a child running directly across a road in front of a speeding car from between parked cars on their side of the road.
If the child wasn’t running, the driver would likely have had time to swerve. If there were no parked cars, they would likely have seen the child approaching the road. If the car was being driven at a normal speed for the road, the driver may have had more time to stop or evade. Fortunately the child suffered no injuries beyond abrasions and bruises.