Public outrage centers around reckless driving and insufficient pedestrian infrastructure in Delhi, reflecting frustration over victim-blaming and systemic negligence in traffic management. There is a strong call for stricter traffic laws and urgent improvements in road safety measures.

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A person with a family died because some fucker did not want to pay the victim's hospital bills. Let that sink in, someone's beloved one lost their life because some scumbag valued some money over a person's life. Shit like this is why I refuse to ride a bike, once you're caught in an accident, chances of survival are too damn low.

brickwalloframen

It was accident at first and it turned to murder. Hope the driver goes behind the bar for the rest of his life and not get away with just 5 lakhs. This is just sad. Rest in peace poor guy.

ProudNefoli

Fucker came back and then killed the guy.

[deleted]

No value for human life. This country is beyond repair.

this is the reason i am very careful on the roads of Nepal. clearly seen the truck driver was at fault.

poor guy, may he rest in peace.

thefalesh

yestai reason le garda bike aafani personal kinna ni dar lagxa , Aafu careful vayera k garne , hanne le hanera gayesi.

Dibash12345

What's the punishment for the driver? 

He should go behind bars for the rest of his life.

mudlesstrip

This is sickening! Thoughts and prayers for the deceased and their loved ones.

Went to the guys tiktok and found these videos

[https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984339440349039898](https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984339440349039898?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1)

[https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984338446030540059](https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984338446030540059)

[https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984387025092824347](https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984387025092824347)

[https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984428991461461275](https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984428991461461275)

Apparently, they caught the driver.

[https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984445090622098715](https://www.tiktok.com/@asapyugaintheeng/video/6984445090622098715)

Consistent_Club_7406

That scum truck driver should be fried in hot oil. These lowlife murderers don't deserve any rights.

twisted182

##$#$$$&amp;#&amp;@&amp;$_#_@&amp;#&amp;#_#&amp;@

DarkHalo0

Saturnius1145

VenkYJ

B3cuase police and government don't stop it on city roads or highways these sort of accidents will only increase.

These sort of people don't care about rules - only by harsh punishment can they be stopped.

Keep0nBuckin

This should tell you that just building infra in the name of development ain’t gonna do squat unless people are educated from the root up. 

I recently used Blr-Mysr expressway and boy was I disappointed. There was a cabbie riding in the wrong way; a truck that jumped the expressway divider to get to the other side; so many, I mean SO MANY, trucks and busses (including ksrtc) were hogging the rightmost lane at around some 80 kmph.

I have all the dashcam footage, I just need time to find and curate them. I will be posting it here soon enough.

oceanic_opening

Idek is desh me traffic rules ko seriously kab liya jayega, neither people nor police take it seriously. People driving on wrong side should have their license revoked immediately with no opportunity for fine.

acypacy

No-Tall-Tea

Incidents like this one make me wonder whether Indians will ever have basic civic sense.


Kinda makes me want to leave this country, to be honest. 

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If alto guy is alive then slap him until he dies

Curious_742

This isn't even attempted, this is successful murder

Ok_Garlic2420

Clearly the alto guy is wrong but even the biker what stupidly he could have avoided it what did he think would happen he thought he was in Dhoom 4😓🥲

WhiteKnight199910

Not defending the car driver at all, all his fault here, but why didn't the bike just move? The bike driver had 3 business days to respond.

sdexca

Anyone from law background, Do these people get attempt to murder charges at least ?

[https://imgflip.com/i/9jugfm](https://imgflip.com/i/9jugfm)

EducationAny392

One of the reasons even if having a 5 star rated car is not safe in India, we don’t hate babus much especially the RTOs .

alphamalet997

 The Alto driver was only trying to drive and check the number of vehicles that give way before crashing!

Whereistheforce

Le alto: mai to Roz hi aise jata hu, pata nhi Aaj kiski shakal dekhi thi

No_Brakes_282

This is not a new thing  
Ye UP hai yha sab normal hai

martarltin

Lord Alto got T-boned.

I hope the other drivers are okay, especially the biker. One person's mistake shouldn't cause another's suffering.

_TheMonster_

Sometimes it becomes so easy for a person to drive in the wrong lane on the expressway.

Stock-Treacle-9858

How the hell is bikes on the expressway, I got fined 25k😭

Suspicious-Bat2393

Are bikes supposed to run on the expressway?

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trendingtattler

Crosswalks don't mean anything anyway. My FIL was in one with the lights flashing as part of a literal walking trail (he walked every morning). A driver struck and killed him at 50 mph in a 25 zone and still wasn't charged criminally. The comments on the news article all blamed my FIL for not waiting until there were no cars to cross the street.

threewhiteroses

I give a standing ovation to this young man.👏. We need smart people to realize what is actually happening.

aserdark

Absolutely \*enraging\*

I genuinely cannot believe the low level of integrity you have to have to mention the pedestrian not being in a crossing and NOT look into where the nearest crosswalk is. What the fuck is journalism anymore?? I cannot fathom how that doesn't spark a question in the writers mind. Even if you look at it from a purely capitalist mindset, being able to write 2 stories from one news incident is a win - especially if you can make something juicy out of the follow-up.

Fuck local journalism and fuck cars

frsti

Finding this video in r/popular and then realizing there's a r/fuckcars sub: 

https://i.redd.it/8hw5m1d6asnd1.gif

airpumper

Now this is true r/fuckcars material. Exposing what's wrong with this street and the system as a whole, not just slashing random tires.

Isaac_Serdwick

I was in a similar situation while crossing a four-lane divided highway on my bike during rush hour when everyone was speeding and going 70 mph/110kmh.  So, I crossed the first two lanes, waited for traffic to clear and crossed the next two lanes.

Ten minutes later, a cop stopped me on the far side of town.  He drove around the town looking for me for ten minutes all because I crossed the road and he wanted me to ride along the highway for 1.6 miles (3km) during rush hour rather than just cross the road carefully.

He could have stopped \*any\* of the cars for speeding but nope, he was after the scofflaw cyclist who, if unpunished, will cause the downfall of Western Civilization.

edit:  Just spent a month in Austria and Belgium.  Cars there are super careful of cyclists and pedestrians.  I was waiting for cars to move down the street before I joined them (being on the curb of the other lane) waiting on my bike.  A car stopped, with a dozen cars behind him, and motioned for me to go in front of him.  It was pretty nice to be treated that way.

branzalia

Civil engineer here who designs commercial land: 

it is incredible how poorly we set up our roads to begin with, and now we are in a cluster trying to fix the past generation’s mistakes. Here is a quick list of reasons why ped access is so limited. 

-racism. No really. Some streets were intentionally not provided sidewalk access to prevent ‘certain people’ from crossing to unwanted areas.

-money. Obvious, but sometimes it is too expensive to provide safe access for pedestrians, so they leave it out until they have the funding (which doesnt come because the problem gets worse over time. 

-safety (read liability). sometimes the upgrades are so extensive and expensive, they opt to not even start, or  dont require others to, because there is no safe outlet for the sidewalk. it is literally a sidewalk to nowhere, that creates a liability because the ped will have to walk on the shoulder

-car lobby. this sub knows more than me on this. 

the future is coming, but systemically we need to change the way our society functions in order to make these changes real. 

keep fighting the fight. you have allies jn the industry.

MischiefManaged777

a-rare-wombat

pacific123456

As a guy in the UK I'm just kinda shocked how 90% of the cars which drove past as the guy was talking were massive 4 wheel drive behemoths. I'm sure they *aren't* - like - to guys in the US they are normal sized family cars, but to me they all look massive.

distilledwill

I live in asheville and APD had a wild case a few years back for beating the fuck out of a man for jwalking, on christmas.

twolittletriangles

Related:

[The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift $Part I$ - How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto the Public](https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/the-great-neoliberal-burden-shift-part-i-how-corporate-america-offset-liability-onto-the-public)

&gt;“Choose the product best suited for baby,” Nestlé urged in a 1970s baby formula ad. “What size is your carbon footprint?” wondered oil giant BP in 2003. “Texting, music listening put distracted pedestrians at risk,” USA Today announced in 2012.

&gt;These headlines and ad copy all offer a glimpse into a longstanding strategy among corporations: place the burdens of safety, health, and wellbeing on individuals, in order to deflect responsibility and regulation. Whether in the areas of transportation, climate, or nutrition and food safety, individuals, namely “consumers,” are increasingly expected to assume full responsibility for their own wellbeing, and are blamed, shamed, and punished–or worse, made ill or injured–when they can’t live up to these unrealistic expectations.

&gt;Sure, everyone must bear some level of personal responsibility in matters of health and safety, obviously. But corporations from Chrysler to Nestlé, in concert with a compliant US media, have taken advantage of this truism to place a disproportionate level of obligation onto the people who work in their warehouses and buy their products. At the same time, they’ve been able to fend off even the most minor of structural changes–say, using less plastic or healthier ingredients–with often dangerous, even deadly, consequences.

&gt;This is Part I of a two-part series on what we’re calling “The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift,” a process in which corporations deflect blame onto the relatively powerless. On this episode, we examine how corporations have shifted the burdens of liability onto “consumers” and other individuals, examining how the auto, fossil-fuel, and food and beverage industries have orchestrated media campaigns to frame the people they harm, whether directly or indirectly, as responsible for their own misfortunes.

adacmswtf1

His YouTube:  https://m.youtube.com/@rob_nsn

DownInBerlin

maxis2bored

I used to live in California and they had sidewalks and cross walks everywhere. I used to ride my bike everywhere in the bike lanes, knowing that I'd be safe on a sidewalk if the bike lanes ended where I was at. 

I live in the Southeast now, and a mentally disabled woman my mom helps care for was just killed crossing a street where there's no cross walks.  [https://www.wsfa.com/2024/09/06/pedestrian-hit-killed-overnight-atlanta-highway/](https://www.wsfa.com/2024/09/06/pedestrian-hit-killed-overnight-atlanta-highway/)

She took a bus and the bus dropped her off on the wrong side of the road. There's a church there, and people cross the road all the time, but there's no cross walk button, no cross walk, no lights... 

The system is 100% the cause of her death. It's honestly political. They won't invest in local infrastructure, everyone HAS to have a car, they don't want people biking or walking anywhere.

Bae_the_Elf

Anyone have a source for the video?

I'd like to hear more from this person 👍

zonkon

He's right in blaming the DoT but it goes all the way to the top. We haven't, in my entire lifetime, gotten a president that actually wanted to fix infrastructure issues. Biden signed a bill but it was more aimed as an umbrella to create jobs and repair existing infrastructure. That aside, we're still running off Eisenhower's Highway Act of 1965. Nearly 60 years without any major overhaul to the current system. 

Give us some fuckin sideways and bike paths with barriers in residential areas. Make cities walkable. Fuckin hell man

JaySayMayday

Libertarian4lifebro

I'm curious, if you have to use crossings, is there a rule in case it is too far ?
For example in France, a pedestrian has to use a pedestrian crossing, unless there's none in a 50m radius, then the pedestrian can cross wherever.

sixouvie

Asheville is wildly lacking in pedestrian infrastructure.

Constantly_Panicking

Hey, it’s that guy! Shoot, I’ve seen like one of his videos and forget what his channel is.

Chiaseedmess

This is so fucked. Fuck cars and their carbrained so-called-drivers...

BlueFroggLtd

Jaywalking is a bullshit law that was made because automobile companies pushed the narrative hard enough so they would not be blamed for pedestrian deatha

chrisblammo123

In case you're interested there's a book recently out -- [Killed by.a Traffic Engineer](https://www.amazon.com/Killed-Traffic-Engineer-Shattering-Transportation/dp/1642833304) --which basically goes into the "science" behind our traffic "engineering" system.

Also a [good War on Cars podcast](https://thewaroncars.org/2024/06/25/129-killed-by-a-traffic-engineer/) with the author if you want to get an overview before reading the book.

PhillyThrowaway1908

I_burn_noodles

Stop using pedestrian. The title should be "A person walking killed by car."

spirited1

I moved back to North Carolina after 18 years away. I'm used to walking everywhere I go from the previous country I lived in. The first time I walked to the grocery store here, there were no walking paths to get from the downtown area to the grocery store so I was walking on the side of the road in the grass looking like a homeless person and/or my car broke down somewhere. The infrastructure in America sucks for walking, it was very depressing to realize. I hope to one day have the influence to have paths everywhere in my hometown. Bike paths too. America needs more daily activity besides moving from the bed, to the couch, to a chair, to a seat in a car with the hope that we have any energy left at the end of the day to get to the gym. I live right outside of Asheville now so this post hits!

ninmena

This is in response to a comment that was deleted earlier. The person was saying it was crazy to blame drivers when both drivers and pedestrians make mistakes (drivers may not react in time) and that if the light is green, he/she can’t possibly be at fault. The person also says that is just “The Rules of the Road.”

No, it’s not a crazy take. It is correct to say people will make mistakes, but it is wrong to assume that the parties involved share equal responsibility in causes of death. One party is operating a dangerous vehicle; the other is not. Regardless of what is law, as decent human beings, we have to understand that mistakes on the end of those that operate dangerous machines, not just vehicles, are more costly than mistakes of those that don’t. It is the outcome of those mistakes that we care about. This victim-blaming mentality is one of the reasons why the US has such high [motor vehicle fatalities](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year).

The “Rules of the Road” were not always this way. For thousands of years, roads belonged to people; and throughout history, roads were shared with other forms of transportation—horses, carriages, trams, etc. (Take a look at [New York in 1911](https://youtu.be/hZ1OgQL9_Cw?si=6I20CgGRUu4OV8yz).) When cars were starting to become popular about a hundred years ago, people started dying because drivers wanted to go fast and drive mindlessly. There were [protests](https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-treated-cars-as-dangerous-intruders/) against cars; the auto industry responded by pushing anti-pedestrian messages. In one example, the auto industry promoted the term “[jaywalker](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking)” to shift the blame of car-related deaths onto pedestrians. (In other countries, this world is rarely used. Why? That’s because pedestrians are not by default blamed for street accidents.) The term comes from jay-driver, which was used to describe reckless carriage or vehicle drivers.

It’s completely asinine how so many people here in the US boast about how much “freedom” they have while parroting corporate talking points. People dying because others don’t want to be inconvenienced? “It’s just a fact of life,” they respond.

Fluorescent_Blue

It's worth noting the pedestrian was hit in an unmarked crosswalk. North Carolina like many states defines unmarked crosswalks as the section of the roadway where two roads intersect. [Driver's are required to yield to pedestrians in unmarked crosswalks.](https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_20/GS_20-173.html) It's bad enough when the police and news use all this coded language to blame pedestrians for their deaths it's even worse when they don't understand the laws.

TurtlesAreEvil

Totally off-topic but I'm old and whenever I hear anyone grumbling about 'the younger generations' I immediately think of content like this and say "fuck you, young people are brilliant."

imrzzz

8,300 metres to just cross the road legally that is so fucking stupid. Nearly 1 hour and 40 minutes

KramMark93

This is the stuff that needs to go viral , we can only first start by educating those around us before we come up with solutions

arzis_maxim

Our city here in Worcester MA has had 4 pedestrians killed by drivers this year trying to cross the street.

International-Dirt7

It's such a shame just how quick people are to ignore the design of the circumstance and instead blame the people affected by it. I understand the shitty reason behind why they'd want to do it since recognizing there's a flaw with the design means needing to take action to rectify it. It's just a shame that the people who are supposed to care about these things in those areas don't actually care about them at all. Just complete apathy it seems.

Vyxwop

ruimikemau

I didn't realize until now that pedestrians are expected to yield to cars when walking along roads that don't have sidewalks. From G.S. 20-174.d

&gt; Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall, when practicable, walk only on the extreme left of the roadway or its shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction. Such pedestrian shall yield the right-of-way to approaching traffic.

On a road as busy as Sweeten Creek following that law would make in nearly impossible to walk along the side of the road. Between that, the lack of crosswalks, and the lack of unmarked crosswalks (based on how the court defined that), it's basically illegal to be a pedestrian on that road during much of the day.

nunquamsecutus

In the Netherlands if people die on a road, the road it self will also be under investigation.

Verkloot

Amerika is designed for Cars. not for Walking, biking or public transport.

Fleymour

&gt;The underlying Assumption of the designers of these streets and of the people who enforce the laws of these streets...  
if something bad happens, someone must have messed up.  It must be user error. We can't blame the design.

Coming from a software engineering background this line of thought is completely batshit insane to me.  In fact we are taught the exact opposite: thinking user behavior is "wrong" and should change is the ultimate in wishful thinking.  Persons have free will and can change, "people" as a whole by and large do not; the only way to really change things is to change the system that they interact with.  "It must be user error. We can't blame the design."-&gt; If a company tried taking this philosophy they'd be out of business immediately!  It's no wonder improving our infrastructure is so difficult when the designers are basically starting from the assumption that no improvements are possible.

Time-Abalone-3918

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo

A long but informative video about how the auto industry created this exact situation, where pedestrians are blamed when they get killed by cars. 

Fuck the auto industry and how it has directly shaped the US into an objectively worse country.

FecesIsMyBusiness

Been 6 days since I spread my dad's ashes. He was walking and got hit by a car and then in a coma for a month. Thabk you for this video.

Returd4

Take 2500 from truck driver and claim your own damage insurance. You'll have to pay 1000-1200 claim charges and 20% ncb for next year premium that would be covered in 2500. 

However claiming insurance will depreciate value of your car if you decide to sell it after few years. 

You can also claim from truck driver's third party insurance but it is a long process and will cause unnecessary suffering to you mentally and legally.

ohh-helllooo

I could be wrong, but most truck drivers do not own the vehicles they drive. Therefore, the best course of action would be to contact the vehicle's owner and have them cover the costs if you do not wish to file an insurance claim.

Coming to the insurance, they literally exist for situation like these. Most offer zero dep insurance bas that could vary from person to person.

Muster-baiter

FIR can be done online , if you don’t want to take claim , don’t report to Insurance company

Emergency_Hurry532

I have the same model and went through a very similar situation. Some kids who had been drinking hit my car in the same spot, but on the right side.

At first, I praised Kia because the impact caused the panels to flex rather than break completely. My PPF saved me a lot, but my insurance premium still went up. The repair cost was ₹30k, but after multiple police station visits and persistent follow-ups, I only managed to get ₹10k from the kids and so I had to take the insurance.

I took extra precautions when visiting the Kia service center since my car was new. While they repaired the damage, I later found fresh dents on the car, which Kia refused to take responsibility for. After spending nearly ₹25 lakh on a car, it's frustrating that this isn't anyone's problem but mine.

Kia call centre doesn't let me talk to any senior and I have been waiting for a response from Kia for too long now.

bootymasterK

You'll have to pay approx 1250 claim charges and your next year’s insurance premium will increase slightly because of the reduced No Claim Bonus.

DpkTewatia01

Did he gave you truck driver. Please tell

Iphone152k23

Take your car to the agency and listen what they say about the damage caused to the car and how much it will cost. Don't go to local vendors for repair. Only the genuine ones!

Temporary_Device_269

What's the point of paying premiums if you don't wanna use the insurance?

Unlikely-Lock-2741

https://preview.redd.it/s1fd0cxh9ure1.jpeg?width=320&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=8d81dce2a672b3b9bf5c473551f103bb38791e9a

FluidStatus7597

Dude didn't wear helmet🙁 and had his head hit the pole.

Distinct-Drama7372

Footage of a non-fatal accident between a car (political person) &amp; a random bike. I'm so surprised to know that the car driver is arrested by the police! Isn't that grossly unfair?

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/caught-on-camera-accident-between-congress-digvijaya-singhs-car-bike-3847928

If it disturbs anyone, apologies. I read that the bike guy is stable, won't have posted if fatal.

Narrow_Shelter5726

Just because one knows how to ride a bike without falling doesn't mean they should be riding a bike.  People lack driving etiquette and road manners.

_reddit_stalker_

rororo013

So the 2 wheeler guy does something very stupid gets hit and the car driver gets arrested. 

 I don't think the SUV was over speeding as well. The car was moving approximately in the same speed as the white bolero before it. So seems like this is the normal speed most cars go in that road.

Anyway hope the guy recovers

InvestigatorQuirky81

Rules in India

Cycle hits man- cycle’s fault. 

Bike hits cycle - Bike’s fault
 
Hatchback hits bike- Hatchback’s fault

Sedan hits hatchback-Sedan’s fault

SUV hits Sedan- SUV’s fault

Bus hits SUV- Bus fault

Truck hits Bus- Trucks’s fault. 

Tank hits Truck- Tank’s fault.

Party-Bet-4003

The driver might be a normal person and kept as a driver for the political person. Sometimes these politicians let the police arrest the driver to make the situation normal and later get a bail for him with some compensation!!

Puzzleheaded-Act-10

Apparently just like media likes to post this shitty statement everytime there is an accident and if the car is traveling anywhere above 20kmph, some guys here are also using the same statement - 

"the car was overspeeding"

sal_el

Car driver is at fault for assuming that a 2 wheeler in such place would follow traffic rules and use his brain. /s

trolock33

A speeding SUV struck two pedestrians in New Delhi, leading to one death and raising issues about road safety and drunk driving.

Delhi Pedestrian Accident

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