Comment by olalonde
3 days ago
We don't know the full circumstances of the accident. She may have been distracted, but it's also possible the pedestrian crossed unexpectedly right in front of the car. Hopefully the facts come out and justice is served fairly.
Have you opened the article?
> the person driving while on TikTok “wasn’t paying attention to the road because she was reading comments and grinning at her phone”.
One doesn't exclude the other. The fact that she was distracted doesn't necessarily mean the accident happened because she was distracted.
100ms can make a difference between life and death
If you're at the wheel of a moving car and do anything other than driving you're a piece of shit who deserves whatever comes your way (which preferably should be your sorry ass hitting a chunky tree and becoming tetraplegic)
There are 0 situation in which using a phone while driving improves your odds or the odds of other people are you.
It doesn't even matter if it's the victims fault, these people are dangerous and should not drive
if there is proof that she wasn’t looking at the road at the time of the accident, do you think she has any chance to defend herself in court even if say victim was jaywalking? with great representation - probably? this will be an interesting trial…
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>topic is literal video of a person looking at camera phone and loud thud
>HN commenter who only read the headline squabbles over correlation vs causation
its all so wearisome
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source: reddit comment
> She may have been distracted
It seems clear that one fact we know is that she was paying attention to her phone at the time. Frankly unforgivable in my opinion.