I was driving 55mph on a highway with a whole line of cars about 50 yards behind me. The road was dark and out of nowhere, this dude is stumbling in the middle of the road and I only had a microsecond to swerve without wiping out.
My handlebar caught his arm and Im 100% sure he went down to the ground.
In that instant I made the decision that I wasn’t going to have my life upended just because some yahoo doesn’t know better than to be jaywalking on a dark HIGHWAY.
I gunned it and never looked back. I’d bet good money that the cars behind me ran him over.
Im not happy about it, but I’m glad I didn’t stop. This was WAYYYYY before cell phones and security cameras.
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I hope the karma train finds you. 👌
He had a flat tire on the side of the road and was flagging down help for his pregnant wife in the backseat
this is very interesting, can’t say I blame you. I’d only probably feel bad if someone behind you finished him off and carried that guilt… idk. Was it not on the news or anything?
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Smart choice
If you tried playing good citizen you could’ve been screwed
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You’re supposed to be in control of your lethal vehicle AT ALL TIMES.
It could have been an animal under your wheel and you would have been the one flying.
I wish you did.
If the guy is dead it is your fault because you didn’t even call an ambulance when you could have been the first one doing just that.
Last, no people don’t usually wander on the high way.
Never heard of abuse/kidnapping/rape victims who managed to escape in the middle of nowhere?
This person didn’t deserve any of this, jaywalking isn’t a crime. What you did was.
You’re despicable.
I’ve heard of things like this happening before. If the person was drunk stumbling on the dark highway not in a crosswalk you would not be in any legal trouble. That sort of thing is pretty clearly the pedestrians fault.
Edit: to be clear I’m not a hit and run is legal. You should stop and help.
Damn. I knew a guy, past co-worker. A guy was walking on the highway, drunk, the co-worker hit him and killed him. He MANED up and stayed at the scene. He did the RIGHT thing. He did not get in any trouble for it considering it was dark, the guy was drunk, and he was walking on the highway. You are a deplorable, weak man/woman. The dude you hit had a family. What if someone behind you was thinking they hit him first and had to take accountability for your nasty actions and poor judgement. You reap what you sow.
People who can do these split second decisions are most likely to survive in disaster situations.
You did the right thing, I don’t blame you. Nothing even morally wrong about it.
Dude was a goner when he stumbled onto the highway. Would probably have gotten run over even without you making first contact. Rendering aid in this situation would probably have been pointless and potentially dangerous. You going back to face the music after the fact would have benefited exactly no one.
And you too could easily have died that night on that highway.
Why would your life be upended unless you were impaired in some way
If you feel bad about it there’s probably a reason. And karma all ways comes around.
😲 dude…. fuck. thats awful. But hopefully he was “medicated” enough to not feel it or “left” instantly. I do feel bad IF someone hit him, for the driver and hopefully no one else got hurt.
BUT ON A FKN HIGHWAY IS CRAZY! I live in Los Angeles & at least 2 years ago, My Mom, sister & I are driving on the FREEWAY, & my Mom points out a very large awareness digital sign (previously used for emergencies like Amber Alerts or sudden stops ahead) that reads, “KEEP EYE OUT FOR PEDESTRIANS”
🤦♀️ I just…. 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I worry about that all the time I live in a pretty rural area with lots of narrow unlit highway . I have to imagine that was some tough days after the incident. I hope you made the most out life after and put it right with whichever god you have.
I know what you did last summer?
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Were you exceeding the posted speed limit?
Fake story
Comments divided more than the USA 😭
I ran over a drunk jaywalker once, called the cops and everything was fine because he was responsible for the accident.
This happened to my brother in law, pedestrian was crossing the road on a red light, early morning, thinking theres no one on the road. Brother in law was on his bike, road is on an incline so he didn’t see him till it was too late. They both died on the spot.
Not sure why this one triggered me so much but what I will say is even if you did stop and report it in today’s world you would be a 100% excused from any intentional actions. Cameras would show that this individual suddenly appeared and you had very little time to react just as cops do in certain situations when someone SUDDENLY pulls a gun or a knife at them mere feet away.
FUCK ALL THE DELUSIONAL NEGATIVE COMMENTS.
& I wish you peace. 💛
Hire a good attorney
It’s called a hit and run. You should confess to a priest or the police.
If he would have caused you to lose control of your bike and died all the people on here who are saying you’re evil would be like it was an unfortunate accident, dude put your life in danger, if this happened 40 years ago like you said in a reply you couldn’t have called anyone and even if you did turn around it would probably have been too late for the guy then again this is reddit so probably a fake story
Best Quincy voice…. It was mmmmurder, Sam
In the USA, we have the “assured clear distance rule”, which means you were at fault for driving in a manner that you were unable to stop within the distance you could see.
I sure hope someone’s side mirror on their car doesn’t clip your arm. You could potentially be dragged 100’s of feet with the posability of another motorist running you over. Careful out there, dude. Karma waits for no man….
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One time on Bakersfield some homeless tried crossing the freeway, like bro there are bridges but no he wanted to cross down and got hit my like 5 or 6 cars i heard.
The old felony hit and run Reddit confession
I used to work the night shift, I was going to lunch around 2am and some guy wearing all black just blew through a stop sign on his bicycle. He was probably going about as fast as he could and went through 4 lanes of 45mph traffic on an unlit road.
Scared the shit outta me. He narrowly escaped becoming a meat crayon at least 3 times on his way across.
Fair to do the same with reckless motorcyclists so I get it.
for someone who rode a motorcycle 40 years ago, op types like he’s awfully young.
You’re not Good person….
r/confession… where shit humans come to get validation. Not a member. Blocking the community.
Was there a mist
Wow and yet bikers are the first to play the biggest victim from some imagined slight against them.
I was riding my motorcycle at dusk through a busy downtown area on my way home from work. I was going 25-30mph max coming up a hill. A car passes in the opposite lane as I’m coming around a curve.
Two teenagers come sprinting across the street from behind a rock wall. I distinctly remember their feet crossing over the yellow lines into my lane- I was in the left hand lane position closest to the line. That was then they realized I was there. I had already made the choice to emergency break in the second I was them- as I expected them to keep running across. but realized it wasn’t going to be enough stopping time. At that point it was too late to swerve.
However they screamed and jumped backward to the other lane of the road as I went past them. I didn’t touch them- didn’t honk- just kinda stared in shock. They were fine and then continued on running to the other side. I decided not to stop and I continue to wonder if I should have.
I was so close to running into them because they ran out from a blind corner when there were literally two separate crosswalks about 10 feet to their right.
I remember being very upset even after I got home. I wasn’t speeding, I was doing all the things I should have done and still could have killed all three of us or at least done some serious damage.
Francis is that you
My dad was a fishing guide, one day he was towing his boat back from a trip, with clients in his vehicle with him. They were on a rural part of the highway with a steep drop off on one side, cliff wall on the other. A kid was walking with multiple loose dogs right beside the highway. One of the dogs ran infront of my dad’s vehicle and unfortunately the teenager bolted into the road after it. There was nowhere for my dad to swerve, no way for him to stop in time, especially while towing the boat. The kid survived but was mentally and physically disabled due to the accident. The court sided with my dad but later the family privately tried to sue him. He also got death threats and other harassment from the kids family. It tore my dad up for the rest of his life. He worked at a school every winter when he wasn’t guiding and couldn’t reckon with hurting a kid. Situations like this are terrible on everyone. I don’t blame you at all OP.
Did you ever look in the paper in the obits or the news to see if he died?
If this is true then ur dumb as h*ll for posting this wtf🤣
Wow I hope they find this post and catch you. It’s sickening how in this story you act like you are the victim and post it here. Hope you get what’s coming to you
Are you Frank Ngannou?
I was sitting third in line at a stop sign when a bicyclist, out of nowhere, hit the front passenger side of my car at the tire and flew over the top with his bike. It was like out of a movie. He got up and started yelling about how I hit him and he was going to sue me. Luckily a cop saw the whole thing and caught it on his dash camera. The guy left in cuffs. I was lucky because so many times it is automatically the cars fault.
Wow what a evil thing to do 🙁
“Hello 911, yes this is the guy”
So you committed a felony.
Go to hell dude- you left a human being for dead.
Even if it wasn’t your fault that’s called a hit-and-run.
What if that person needed medical aid?
This thread kinda shows how psychotic people are on Reddit. Dude did a hit and run and doesn’t even regret it. 1k upvotes and sympathetic replies.
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
We’re to believe OP, as an 18 yr old, struck a person and left the scene, but was responsible enough to be going not one mile an hour over…on a bike?
Dude, you were likely speeding, not paying attention and blasted some poor guy who wandered into the road and left him to die.
Not sure how ghouls like you sleep at night.
So you weren’t speeding, and presumably not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, you would not have been in any trouble for an accident that couldnt be avoided … Yet you still decided to not stop?
Wow. That’s a totally horrible decision and I’m surprised you can live with it so easily.
You know that you did the wrong thing, so the attempt to justify it is pathetic honestly.
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Yikes. Sounds like one of those moments you’d probably replay in your head over and over, but there’s really no going back once it’s done. Just hope someone else reported it, because that’s a nightmare scenario.
In the UK we don’t have jaywalkers, we call them pedestrians. You hit a pedestrian and faked to stop. You belong in prison.
Just saying whether your in the right or wrong not stopping makes it 100x worse for you especially if they catch you e.g by cameras and track you down. No excuse will save you then. The courts will throw the book at you for the mere fact you ran. All drivers are involved in a accident are obligated to stop and check if the car crash victim is ok and render aid if needed. Running makes it look like you have something to hide.
Francis, that was a child…
my spouse clipped a guy who was walking in the road at night. He couldnt swerve because there was an off duty cop driving towards him in a truck towing a trailer. The guy broke his arm but the off duty cop testified in the police report that there was nowhere for my spouse to swerve and, well, the guy was walking in dark clothes at night in the road (not the shoulder). So the other guy was found at fault.
lol when your children are old enough to drive they better hope this hypothetical person walks out in the road in the middle of nowhere, because everywhere else will have cameras. A mother just got hit and killed by a motorcyclist (not her fault) in Seattle last week and I’m surprised they haven’t found him yet, but there are definitely photos.
So you’re bragging about committing a hit and run?
Always stop.
Is this sallu bhai
Hit and run vehicular manslaughter
I clipped a Jay walked with my side mirror in the dark and heavy rain. 911 told me not to stop and that they would send someone. They never took my info nor contacted me. Over 25 years ago. I still wonder about the outcome for that guy.
So instead of stopping and helping him when you would not be found at fault you fled the scene and very likely could have had him killed? And you think that was a good decision?
If you want to get away with murder in the US, run someone over with your car while sober. OP probably would not have gotten a charge if he was totally sober.
If youre riding 55mph and had a “milisecond” to react, you were riding too fucking fast. Im personally hoping you end up under a car. Im guessing it won’t be much longer if you still think to this day that you’re in the right.
Your actions were heartless, dumb, and totally unnecessary. If someone is jaywalking ON THE HIGHWAY you almost certainly wouldn’t have gotten into literally any trouble. Seriously. I know because I did something similar and stopped and called the cops. I was cleared immediately because a drunk jaywalker is 100% in the wrong. Fucking duh.
You went from blameless to leaving the scene of an accident. You went from having an minor interaction with the cops to commiting a felony. You made things exponentially worse for yourself, not to mention you didn’t even stop to make sure a fellow human was okay.
Also it’s idiotic to post this on the Internet assuming it’s true. The responses saying you did the right thing are fucking insane.
When you take your last breath and you rise and judged what then. Please atone, ask for forgiveness, make up for what you have done.
I once managed to stop within inches of a kid chasing a ball. The 1 ton van behind was less successful. The kid is paralyzed now.
I didn’t have a dash cam, but there were a couple of ring cams that caught the accident. The truck driver tried to claim I cut him off and slammed on my brakes for no reason. He was drunk and had no clue there was even a kid there.
Buddy i went to school with took a drunk vagrant out he stumbled into the road at night when he was on the way home. Amazing the stuff that comes out when youve been liquored up you know?
I’ve had something similar happen before.
I was out driving in a college town around 1 am on a Monday. Just driving down a local road when this dude is just standing there in the road. Luckily I saw him, stopped and gave him a honk. Dude looked at me, raised his arms up with a “what the fuck” gesture, and started to walk toward my driver side door. I swerved into the other lane and gunned it. He threw his entire body onto the driver side of my car and rolled off, lying on the middle of the road. I didn’t even look back.
Yes. I can understand the panic. But you hit someone nonetheless.
If this person came out of nowhere and you feel like the crash was unavoidable, why not stay and call the police? Tell them what happened.
Now, this incident is eating you up inside. Which speaks to how you’re a good person who merely panicked. This is human nature.
Yet you confess to a group of Discovery ID addicts, what you have done. Like you want to be found out. And if the documentary “Don’t f’ with Cats” hasn’t proven one thing, it’s people find a way .
If its not fake you are a pos 🙂
depraved indifference, bro
Fuck you. The fact that this was before cell phones, even more so. You had the opportunity to save a life and you are defending the choice not to years later
… so you didn’t want to get in trouble because you accidently hit someone, so you committed a felony hit and run?