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24-year-old attempting to rollerblade across the entire US killed in hit-and-run (www.kctv5.com)
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SALINE COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) — A Norwegian man attempting to rollerblade across the U.S. was killed in a hit-and-run in Kansas, officials said.

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as 24-year-old Joachim Lanham.

Lanham was documenting his rollerblading journey across the U.S. on Instagram. According to a post from his family, he was hit by an SUV on day 22 of his journey from New York to Los Angeles

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[+] -15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

First, that SUV is 2 ton. That's an easy search. You're approaching semi-truck territory here.

Second, and I'm not siding with her as it could be false, what would you expect someone to do if they returned to a potential collision site and found nothing?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Semis, unloaded, are like five tons, minimum. I guess two tons is approaching, but then so is my sedan at like 3,400 pounds.

    And as fully loaded tractor trailer is like 30 or 40 tons.

    I believe cars are getting too big though.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    That hypothetical would be much more convincing if it had anything to do with the actual facts of the real event that took place.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Yes, hindsight is 20/20. Unfortunately, I can't see into the future and neither could she.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    There's no need to be sarcastic; I want you to be more persuasive because I completely agree with you that it is unreasonable to expect private citizens to be able to do things like: notice a full-grown man in rollerblades on the side of a highway, or notice you have collided with a rollerblader, or safely overtake a rollerblader, or notice that the rollerblader is no longer visible and is instead dying on the side of the road. People can't do this if they are 32 or 82 -- there is too much going on with their phones and their infotainment panels and the complex road conditions. You just gotta say it with your whole chest: no-one can reasonably be expected to safely operated a motor vehicle.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    which is why FuckCars

    If public transit were more common hit and runs like these would be far less common. Cause even if a 32 YO or oldrr person were operating such a vehicle public transport buses pick up on when youre moving too fast and they warn you, AND they probahly send a report bck to your boss, AND they have wider fields of vision cause of their bigger glass screeens so you can see more before you ever get to hit someone, AND because theyre bigger and girthier they tend to accelerate slower so pedestrians can see and interpret what dangerous moves these viehicles are about to make better.

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