In article , Stijn De Jong
wrote:


He didn't know how to drive on mountain roads (apparently).

he's still a stupid driver.

I am agreeing with you.
If you can't miss a 20 foot wide hole, you're not gonna miss a pedestrian
either. Or even a guardrail.

He was a bad driver, no doubt about it.
I agree with you.

You're supposed to maintain control of your vehicle, and driving into a
hole isn't maintaining control. He should have been able to stop.

If he couldn't stop, then he was driving too fast.

he was driving too fast for conditions and not paying attention either.

hopefully he learned a lesson. probably not though.

What if someone was standing in the road, for example.

He'd have run them over.

maybe.

pedestrians don't usually stand in the road so it's rarely an issue.

however, there are definitely stupid ones who step into moving traffic
expecting that the vehicles will stop, or they don't even bother
looking to see if there is any traffic at all. stupidity is not limited
to just drivers.

at least for people who step into traffic, they learn a quick lesson
and likely won't do it again, usually because they're unable to walk
anymore or dead.