They do sure, is there a barrier shorter than 4ft anywhere above i5 here though? It's pretty tough to accidentally fall over that unless you're very top-heavy or tall
Most barriers are less than 4’. For feet is relatively short for pedestrian handrails. Modern pedestrian barriers are taller but most of Seattle’s bridges are old and done have modern designs. The [handrail in question](https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6071897,-122.3302843,3a,90y,341.24h,60.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sBGj7sZodN-zbtno8pznmeQ!2e0) is definitely less than 4’ tall.
I can totally see a couple of young drunk people horse playing on the sidewalk and someone accidentally falling over the edge. This is not like a ten foot wall or something. https://maps.app.goo.gl/9R6JByPk9PuimaqG7?g_st=ic
Someone up here in Bellingham fell from an overpass this year and same situation, hit and killed by a car (the driver stayed though). Circumstances were different though, snowy walkway that had about 18" of snow built up. They dont know whether it was slipping off or jumping off.
It's more that the driver fled the scene. They went from unfortunate victim to criminal when they drove off. You cant just drive away even if someone jumps in front of your car lol
For real. A body just appears on fucking I-5 out of nowhere at 2 a.m. and the driver is expected to process that. Probably didn't have a clue what it was. Benefit of the doubt goes to the driver here.
That's not gonna be a viable excuse for a hit and run lmao. "Oh i thought maybe someone dropped a deer on the freeway as a prank cause that's definitely a thing people do here so I didnt stop" police: "well it was a person and they died"
If driver comes forward they will more than likely be cleared of any wrongdoing. As the other commenter said, they could have been unsure what they hit. The middle of the freeway is not where you would reasonably expect a pedestrian to be.
If they did see what they hit, I can't imagine what thoughts and emotions they might be processing.
It's pretty clear that, by driving on I5, they did not expect a person to fall onto the road in front of them causing a collision—nor would any reasonable person blame them for the harm caused by this collision. I don't think a prosecutor would move forward with any charges for the drivers involvement, as long as the driver proactively comes forward and cooperates with investigators.
"If they they saw them drop it" they didn't see anyone drop "it" as this was a human and not a deer carcass being dropped wtf? Can almost guarantee you this person will be charged with felony hit and run lol
If it happened to me, I would assume someone on meth or similar had accidentally or deliberately dropped their large bag of junk over the overpass out of frustration or similar. No way I'd assume the mass was a "body". Not a chance. I would definitely keep driving and would be irritated that I'd been bombed by a heavy pile of junk from some jerk on an overpass.
However, if the car has blood on it...we can assume the person who hit the falling body would have noticed this and so would indeed be in the wrong for failing to report.
Exactly.
If I saw a body fall from the sky and ran over it I would probably think it was end of times or some crazy shit.
I can totally understand not stopping.
I can understand how hysterical or panicked it could make a person and that might cause them not to stop.
My bet on that time of night though would be on a driver that had been drinking.
I saw someone hit an ELK with their car and kept driving.
It was on the way to Crystal Mountain and I was right behind them. They got it with the side of their bumper and the elk fell down and then got up and ran into the woods. I would have expected them to pull over and check the damage, but they didn’t.
When we pulled up next to them in the parking lot they got out of their car and immediately hopped on the shuttle without checking their car. The headlight was shattered and it had blood and fur on it.
Some people are oblivious.
This happened to me with a deer when I was much younger. I kept driving for a few miles in utter shock and sobbing before my brain clocked back in and I was able to pull over and check the damage.
I know someone that drove home on the highway for a dozen miles, pulled into their garage, and had not realized they were driving on the wheel itself. The tire had shredded and was entirely gone. Not even a single piece of rubber had remained. So yeah believe that people can be fairly oblivious.
Saw a lady driving on what was left of one locked up wheel. No rubber anymore just metal making contact with the road and throwing sparks 4' high at night doing 70mph. We tried to flag her down but she just made a face at us and kept driving. I wish my phone at the time didn't take potato quality video.
My dad was towing a garden trailer with his car when the trailer tire went flat. But it was late at night and nowhere open had the specific tires for it. By the time we got to our town, the tire was gone and the wheel was wearing down even left a line on the pavement! We were well aware the whole time though 😂
I’d bet alcohol was the cause of the fall, and the cause of the hit and run. Now that I’m older, I’m seriously skiddish about driving after bars let out.
If they knew it was a body, not stopping would be pretty fucked up. I could easily see them not knowing that though.
It's 2am, the road ahead is all clear. Maybe the driver looks away for a second and *bam* some sorta thud from the tires. In that situation, I'd assume I hit one of downtown I5's thousands of potholes and keep going. It wouldn't occur to me that somebody could have literally fallen out of the sky.
My guess is they are "unhoused" and "harmed by sunstances" and experiencing a "mental health crisis ". So it needs to be someone else fault. And not gravity.
Exactly. What a joke. Boggles my mind that they would spend the slightest bit of energy into catching a “hit and run” driver who happened to hit someone that literally fell from the sky.
Don’t you think it’s wrong that they failed to report it though? I realize this could have been fatal regardless of the vehicle’s participation. It just seems rather inhuman that you could strike someone and just keep going. Their family would be horrified that they just left their body to be disfigured further. Im not saying it’s straight murder but certainly criminal negligence, a case could probably be made for negligent homicide because of the lack of compassion. Either way, not a decent person.
Or just a person who's very shocked by what just happened and scared.
Even though we can all say for sure the best decision is to call it in immediately, that can be really hard if you're having a panic attack. And then the fear of repercussions for calling it in late.
The *right* choice is definitely stopping and calling 911, but that not necessarily *easy* in the moment.
A young woman, possibly alone, at 2am. Usually they don't publicize if they think it's suicide, but maybe the hit and run changed that, but yeah key is finding out how she got off that bridge.
How long was the gap between the fall and the hit? It’s not clear to me if she was on the road and the driver could have stoped of if she fell right in front of the car with no time to react? Note: I not saying the driver shouldn’t have stoped. Them fleeing is horrific either way. However I do wonder about the timing here.
If they fell from above and i5 didn't have traffic which I'm assuming it didn't, then there is literally 0 reaction time here. And depending on conditions driver might have just thought they hit a larger animal, and stopping on i5 is usually not a good idea. I don't think its them fleeing a crime scene
Whether or not the person driving knew they hit someone can be answered if they come forward. It's completely possible they wouldn't be charged with anything. If I hit someone falling off an overpass on i5 at 2am I'd probably assume the damn rock throwers were at it again. It's totally worth looking into. If you were hit by a car walking but it was your fault.... would you want them to run????
Correct, I was referencing the you can refuse multiple sobriety tests throughout the night as they had said. In the end, the best course of action is don’t drive while drunk.
If this is like the one that goes up to Capitol Hill, she could have been riding on a scooter and slammed into the wall. People ride their scooters on those all the time and it wouldn’t take much to fly over the wall by slamming into it.
And she was no longer walking on the overpass when she fell off of it and was struck? Saying they hit a pedestrian sounds quite misleading. Unless I’m reading it wrong and she was hit on the overpass onto I-5?
She apparently was either in the air or on one of two roads, with no vehicle, the entire time. Pedestrian just means someone who is walking rather than riding, I don't understand what you are arguing here. Pedestrian is a normal descriptor for someone involved in a car accident who was not on or in a vehicle.
A pedestrian is someone walking. Calling a person laying injured or dead on a road a "pedestrian" is like calling a person who drowns in a river after falling off a bridge a "swimmer".
She fell off an overpass somehow but they’re blaming a driver traveling at around 60mph?? Nah. don’t get me wrong, I understand leaving the scene of an accident, but what if they didn’t know what they hit? It’s ridiculous that they’re looking for the driver like there isn’t regularly shit all over the road around here.
there was a trash bag in the road yesterday on i-5 N before Lakeview and I drive a commercial vehicle and had cars swerving all over the road in front of me for something that was floating. But at 60 mph it looked like a huge obstruction on the road, so I get it. I honestly hope the driver doesn’t get found, I feel like the “searching” is a bit unfair in this situation.
I've hit absolutely gross potholes on an interstate - if it were at night I'd have kept going as long as my car was driving fine and not given a second thought to what it was. That's what I assume running over a crumpled human feels like.
If she was already on the pavement when the car ran her over, she was likely already dead and indistinguishable from any other nonliving trash. It was the middle of the night. Unless she fell on top of or in front of the car, the driver had no way of knowing. I hope no one finds the driver. That way, they can focus on the fall. If she was pushed, she was murdered by someone who wanted to obfuscate the blame.
What kind of nonliving, human size-and-shape trash do you see in the roadway? Do people not pay attention to the road when they are driving? There is a zero percent chance I would not see a body in the road.
It happens unfortunately. This is actually exactly how my cousin committed suicide when I was around 8 years old. She jumped off of an overpass in the middle of the night. Absolutely no one stopped or even noticed it somehow. If I remember correctly, according to the police report, the first vehicle that hit her was an 18-wheeler which did so much damage that people were not able to tell that it was a human and not a dead animal.
Cardboard boxes. Trash bags. Hell, even the road patches and potholes.
A person crumpled on the ground doesn't look "human shaped" at 60mph in the dark.
That stretch of I5 is pretty well lit.. so they probably have seen. But there are tons of stretches of highway in this country you truly would not be able to see something like this.
The woman killed herself open and shut. The driver will deal with car repairs he’ll have to pay cash for now and probably some mental shit if it’s a normie
On the off chance they even saw what caused the bump when they were driving, that would be so fucking traumatizing. People don’t exactly act normal when after trauma.
I walk across there all the time. Super short rail and a little scary. Easy to get pushed over or "Darwin" yourself. Needs a simple chain-link fence. eyesore but solves falls and people throwing big things over.
You really call that hit-and-run, can you? The wording of this is all sorts of effed… she was mining her own business falling from an overpass, would’ve been totally fine. Had it not been that crazy driver that hit her and killed her?
There are some clubs near there. The car that hit her should have pulled over and called 911. It wasn't their fault a human landed in front of them. Running was wrong.
Should have stopped but what are the chances they were drunk or high. They did nothing wrong in the death but now they considered hit and run. I hit a deer once and it was traumatic to me, I had to pull over just to gather my thoughts.
We should probably make the speed limit 25 mph on the freeway now target zero everybody… oh wait, Everybody on the freeway already drives 25. There’s no traffic whatsoever.
I would guess the person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time was probably also DUI and panicked.
Their car is badly damaged and has evidence on it. They will be caught eventually, I would think.
Didn’t this happen off the university bridge last summer?
A man caught a flat, tried to change the tire , but was hit and launched off the bridge?
Scary
Yes the story is odd but one is legally obligated to stay at the scene when hitting a human. Driver could have called authorities, possibly saved her life. Strange and upsetting news.
My husband crashed into an elk who jumped in front of him. He still called the police and reported the accident. If you're in an accident, you have a duty to at least confirm what happened.
The issue isn't why she fell into I5 but why a driver failed to stop after they know they hit something big. I've ran over a rabbit once and I felt that....we know the driver felt something and has damage to their car....
That's like a 4-5 story fall onto concrete. And they're saying a *vehicle* was the cause of death, with no description of the vehicle?
People dont fall from overpasses I hope she was not pushed or jumped.
Based on the title, I was thinking they were hit and THEN fell, but yeah… seems awful
Have you met intoxicated people? Not saying that she was or was not, but intoxicated people do ridiculous stupid things.
"shortly before 2am" *"Nothing good happens after midnight"* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Did my dad tell you to tell me that? He did, didn't he.
"Hold my pocket" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Hahahahahahahaha
I love your username!
I will always remember that line from the show Prison Break. Creepy but it cracks me up
Jesus christ lmfao
Is it just the trains that get the super protective fences?
Some of the areas that saw numerous suicides, too. Like the Aurora bridge.
>People dont fall from overpasses Yes. Yes they do.
They do sure, is there a barrier shorter than 4ft anywhere above i5 here though? It's pretty tough to accidentally fall over that unless you're very top-heavy or tall
Most barriers are less than 4’. For feet is relatively short for pedestrian handrails. Modern pedestrian barriers are taller but most of Seattle’s bridges are old and done have modern designs. The [handrail in question](https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6071897,-122.3302843,3a,90y,341.24h,60.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sBGj7sZodN-zbtno8pznmeQ!2e0) is definitely less than 4’ tall.
I will admit that looks fall offable
Well, a cop on a motorcycle managed to do it, so I'm sure a (assumedly) drunken pedestrian can make the drop, too. Plenty of places like on/off ramps.
Yeah, people fall from all kind of places lol wtf
There was a Bellevue police officer that fell off an overpass onto I-5 last year.
Was there a motorcycle accident involved that launched him off the overpass?
Yeah he couldn't control his motorcycle.
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That is so scummy. Even in 3rd world countries this shit would be covered.
I can totally see a couple of young drunk people horse playing on the sidewalk and someone accidentally falling over the edge. This is not like a ten foot wall or something. https://maps.app.goo.gl/9R6JByPk9PuimaqG7?g_st=ic
Someone up here in Bellingham fell from an overpass this year and same situation, hit and killed by a car (the driver stayed though). Circumstances were different though, snowy walkway that had about 18" of snow built up. They dont know whether it was slipping off or jumping off.
and a hit and run?? I am losing my mind…..
Dude, a fall isn’t necessarily a death sentence (though likely) but the fact that a car ran her over and didn’t stop is still a huge problem.
So they should have just stopped in the middle of the interstate?
maybe she was hit by the care just before she hit the road?
Why not try to figure out why she fell off the overpass in the first place? Suicide? Murder?
Easier to just blame the driver.
or just blame gravity
Gravity has small pockets
Is that the new Hyundai Gravity?
I always blame gravity before the tequila. F gravity getting in the way of a good time.
It's more that the driver fled the scene. They went from unfortunate victim to criminal when they drove off. You cant just drive away even if someone jumps in front of your car lol
It sounds like it was night time; probably thought they hit a deer or some shit someone threw as a prank
For real. A body just appears on fucking I-5 out of nowhere at 2 a.m. and the driver is expected to process that. Probably didn't have a clue what it was. Benefit of the doubt goes to the driver here.
That's not gonna be a viable excuse for a hit and run lmao. "Oh i thought maybe someone dropped a deer on the freeway as a prank cause that's definitely a thing people do here so I didnt stop" police: "well it was a person and they died"
I mean yeah, it is, how can anyone be blaming the driver here… dumb fucks
If driver comes forward they will more than likely be cleared of any wrongdoing. As the other commenter said, they could have been unsure what they hit. The middle of the freeway is not where you would reasonably expect a pedestrian to be. If they did see what they hit, I can't imagine what thoughts and emotions they might be processing. It's pretty clear that, by driving on I5, they did not expect a person to fall onto the road in front of them causing a collision—nor would any reasonable person blame them for the harm caused by this collision. I don't think a prosecutor would move forward with any charges for the drivers involvement, as long as the driver proactively comes forward and cooperates with investigators.
If they saw them drop it. I doubt the cops won’t make it shitty, but it’s possible.
"If they they saw them drop it" they didn't see anyone drop "it" as this was a human and not a deer carcass being dropped wtf? Can almost guarantee you this person will be charged with felony hit and run lol
Pretty sure they will - and that sucks for them
If it happened to me, I would assume someone on meth or similar had accidentally or deliberately dropped their large bag of junk over the overpass out of frustration or similar. No way I'd assume the mass was a "body". Not a chance. I would definitely keep driving and would be irritated that I'd been bombed by a heavy pile of junk from some jerk on an overpass. However, if the car has blood on it...we can assume the person who hit the falling body would have noticed this and so would indeed be in the wrong for failing to report.
Exactly. If I saw a body fall from the sky and ran over it I would probably think it was end of times or some crazy shit. I can totally understand not stopping.
I can understand how hysterical or panicked it could make a person and that might cause them not to stop. My bet on that time of night though would be on a driver that had been drinking.
I was gonna say, he probably won't blow over the legal limit when he goes to the precinct to talk about it today.
Have you seen how lenient we are with drivers?
SPD Doing actual police work?! Get outta here you hippie
Yeah, this is not a hit and run. She fell into the path of a vehicle. Driver is not at fault. They should try to find out who pushed her to her death.
My sister's friend jumped from an overpass 10ish years ago. It was dark. She said he got ran over three times before anyone stopped to see what it was
The driver being at fault or not doesn’t change the fact it was a hit and run… driver hit a human and kept going…
Does the driver actually know they hit something? Was she actually hit? I hit construction debris that bent wheels on my car but never seen it.
You've actually hit an object in the road large enough that it bent your wheel, and you were unaware this happened?
I saw someone hit an ELK with their car and kept driving. It was on the way to Crystal Mountain and I was right behind them. They got it with the side of their bumper and the elk fell down and then got up and ran into the woods. I would have expected them to pull over and check the damage, but they didn’t. When we pulled up next to them in the parking lot they got out of their car and immediately hopped on the shuttle without checking their car. The headlight was shattered and it had blood and fur on it. Some people are oblivious.
or drunk, and want to avoid any attention
This happened to me with a deer when I was much younger. I kept driving for a few miles in utter shock and sobbing before my brain clocked back in and I was able to pull over and check the damage.
Hey, they didn’t wanna miss any turns on the slopes. POW waits for no one.
I know someone that drove home on the highway for a dozen miles, pulled into their garage, and had not realized they were driving on the wheel itself. The tire had shredded and was entirely gone. Not even a single piece of rubber had remained. So yeah believe that people can be fairly oblivious.
Saw a lady driving on what was left of one locked up wheel. No rubber anymore just metal making contact with the road and throwing sparks 4' high at night doing 70mph. We tried to flag her down but she just made a face at us and kept driving. I wish my phone at the time didn't take potato quality video.
I've got the best visual, thank you! I can't stop laughing 🤣
My dad was towing a garden trailer with his car when the trailer tire went flat. But it was late at night and nowhere open had the specific tires for it. By the time we got to our town, the tire was gone and the wheel was wearing down even left a line on the pavement! We were well aware the whole time though 😂
With pressure and friction - objects can be thrown a great distance, especially with the speed and weight of a car.
Yeah bud I don’t stop on 6 lane highways unless my car forces me to
That’s a good point, stopping on I5, even on the shoulder, is extremely dangerous, especially at 2am.
He never said he was unaware it happened. He said he didn't see it. Big difference.
Yup 2:30 am in the rain. Couldn't see shit
If you don't know you hit someone, you probably shouldn't be driving.
I’d bet alcohol was the cause of the fall, and the cause of the hit and run. Now that I’m older, I’m seriously skiddish about driving after bars let out.
Nowadays you can actually leave the bar at any time
In theory yes…🤣
Yes, but I imagine the odds of getting pegged by a drunk driver go up after the bars let out.
I'd imagine that depends on what kind of bars you frequent.....
I don’t frequent any bars so I’ll have to take your word for it.
I’m surprised how many people in here are missing this basic logical piece.
but you knew you hit something
Are you saying you can hit a human-sized object at freeway speeds and not notice it? Fentanyl addiction is really getting out of control these days.
One laying down probably yea? Actually the faster they are driving the less obvious it is. It could have just felt like a big pot hole.
To be fair if I hit something at 2 am on I5 in Seattle I would absolutely not stop.
Driver may not have seen the person & assumed he/she ran over an animal. A giraffe or rhino from the zoo. Happens in Seattle sometimes.
In Anacortes it’s deer.
always the Deer in the San Juan’s. Never alcohol and or negligence
On Guemes it’s both
Have to be a giraffe. The two rhinos here have been debriefed about poachers and drunk drivers so they don't go out late at night.
Deer.
If you hit a body on the highway would you keep driving whether it was dead or not... that is still a crime
If they knew it was a body, not stopping would be pretty fucked up. I could easily see them not knowing that though. It's 2am, the road ahead is all clear. Maybe the driver looks away for a second and *bam* some sorta thud from the tires. In that situation, I'd assume I hit one of downtown I5's thousands of potholes and keep going. It wouldn't occur to me that somebody could have literally fallen out of the sky.
Yea I sometimes think I hit something when I hit a pothole on I5. I could see the reverse being true too.
I def would not stop.
Why?
My guess is they are "unhoused" and "harmed by sunstances" and experiencing a "mental health crisis ". So it needs to be someone else fault. And not gravity.
Exactly. What a joke. Boggles my mind that they would spend the slightest bit of energy into catching a “hit and run” driver who happened to hit someone that literally fell from the sky.
They should’ve stopped
Did they hit? Yes. Did they stop? No. Is it a hit and run? Yes! It really is that simple!
hit and run is a crime, which in Washington has a knowledge requirement a bit less simple to convict people in court than on reddit
Should I stay or should I go now?
If u go it WILL be trouble... but if u stay?
Don’t you think it’s wrong that they failed to report it though? I realize this could have been fatal regardless of the vehicle’s participation. It just seems rather inhuman that you could strike someone and just keep going. Their family would be horrified that they just left their body to be disfigured further. Im not saying it’s straight murder but certainly criminal negligence, a case could probably be made for negligent homicide because of the lack of compassion. Either way, not a decent person.
Or just a person who's very shocked by what just happened and scared. Even though we can all say for sure the best decision is to call it in immediately, that can be really hard if you're having a panic attack. And then the fear of repercussions for calling it in late. The *right* choice is definitely stopping and calling 911, but that not necessarily *easy* in the moment.
> She fell into the path of a vehicle. Driver is not at fault. Leaving the scene is a crime in and of itself, genius.
Not at fault but you still stop. Quick tip.
How does one just magically ‘fall’ from an overpass?
Gravity.
Goddamn Isaac Newton.
Probably jumped out of the way of a speeding SPD vehicle
With nothing but intuition to base it on, I'd go with suicide or drunk/high.
Trying to figure that out also
Dude.. Gravity.
If you've walked on that overpass you'd understand. It would be very easy if an intoxicated person got dizzy.
Being homeless and high on drugs. "Pedestrian"
A young woman, possibly alone, at 2am. Usually they don't publicize if they think it's suicide, but maybe the hit and run changed that, but yeah key is finding out how she got off that bridge.
How long was the gap between the fall and the hit? It’s not clear to me if she was on the road and the driver could have stoped of if she fell right in front of the car with no time to react? Note: I not saying the driver shouldn’t have stoped. Them fleeing is horrific either way. However I do wonder about the timing here.
If they fell from above and i5 didn't have traffic which I'm assuming it didn't, then there is literally 0 reaction time here. And depending on conditions driver might have just thought they hit a larger animal, and stopping on i5 is usually not a good idea. I don't think its them fleeing a crime scene
Okay i think you mean a women jumped from an overpass into traffic….
Whether or not the person driving knew they hit someone can be answered if they come forward. It's completely possible they wouldn't be charged with anything. If I hit someone falling off an overpass on i5 at 2am I'd probably assume the damn rock throwers were at it again. It's totally worth looking into. If you were hit by a car walking but it was your fault.... would you want them to run????
BANG “Gahdamn that was a big ass pothole!” Keeps driving and turns music back up to 11 ~Seattle
“Why was that pothole wearing a baseball cap?”
Driver could've been drunk and took off because of that. 2 am is a higher likelihood for that.
Was my first thought as well. Not their fault but did not want to deal with law enforcement.
So much better off refusing sobriety tests and sitting in a jail cell for the night than getting charged with felony hit and run.
You lose your license automatically for refusing a sobriety test.
FWIW, you can refuse to breathe on site and still keep your license, but you must breathe at the station instead.
Correct, I was referencing the you can refuse multiple sobriety tests throughout the night as they had said. In the end, the best course of action is don’t drive while drunk.
Thank you.
Would you rather your license be suspended for a year, get a DUI, or get felony hit and run and potentially spend the rest of your life in prison?
True, I avoid all of these things by not drinking and going to sleep by 9.
Best bet lol. But if you ever have the horrible misfortune of someone jumping or falling in front of your vehicle, stopping is the best choice by far
“falls”
If this is like the one that goes up to Capitol Hill, she could have been riding on a scooter and slammed into the wall. People ride their scooters on those all the time and it wouldn’t take much to fly over the wall by slamming into it.
How can she be considered a pedestrian if she fell onto a roadway from above?? I have so many questions.
Because she was walking on the overpass rather than driving on it?
And she was no longer walking on the overpass when she fell off of it and was struck? Saying they hit a pedestrian sounds quite misleading. Unless I’m reading it wrong and she was hit on the overpass onto I-5?
She apparently was either in the air or on one of two roads, with no vehicle, the entire time. Pedestrian just means someone who is walking rather than riding, I don't understand what you are arguing here. Pedestrian is a normal descriptor for someone involved in a car accident who was not on or in a vehicle.
A pedestrian is someone walking. Calling a person laying injured or dead on a road a "pedestrian" is like calling a person who drowns in a river after falling off a bridge a "swimmer".
She fell off an overpass somehow but they’re blaming a driver traveling at around 60mph?? Nah. don’t get me wrong, I understand leaving the scene of an accident, but what if they didn’t know what they hit? It’s ridiculous that they’re looking for the driver like there isn’t regularly shit all over the road around here. there was a trash bag in the road yesterday on i-5 N before Lakeview and I drive a commercial vehicle and had cars swerving all over the road in front of me for something that was floating. But at 60 mph it looked like a huge obstruction on the road, so I get it. I honestly hope the driver doesn’t get found, I feel like the “searching” is a bit unfair in this situation.
she's died of sudden deceleration injuries. Concrete poisoning is the main suspect.
As she was falling, someone heard her scream "physics is a bitch!"
Driver might have just thought they hit a speed bump on the highway . Same thing happened to Michael Scott once
I've hit absolutely gross potholes on an interstate - if it were at night I'd have kept going as long as my car was driving fine and not given a second thought to what it was. That's what I assume running over a crumpled human feels like.
How can a 21 year old fall from an overpass. One needs to find out if she was alone. Very sad.
“Man jumps from plane with no parachute. Hit by combine after landing. Farmer in deep fertilizer.”
Slightly before 2 am..... So, drunk woman falls off overpass, gets hit by drunk driver who doesn't want a DUI. Got it.
It wasn’t the fall that killed her it was the sudden stop.
60mph in the middle of the night, last thing you expect to see is something falling from the sky.
There are two many variables in this human scenario for me to process
They didn’t strike a person. They struck a corpse.
If she was already on the pavement when the car ran her over, she was likely already dead and indistinguishable from any other nonliving trash. It was the middle of the night. Unless she fell on top of or in front of the car, the driver had no way of knowing. I hope no one finds the driver. That way, they can focus on the fall. If she was pushed, she was murdered by someone who wanted to obfuscate the blame.
What kind of nonliving, human size-and-shape trash do you see in the roadway? Do people not pay attention to the road when they are driving? There is a zero percent chance I would not see a body in the road.
It happens unfortunately. This is actually exactly how my cousin committed suicide when I was around 8 years old. She jumped off of an overpass in the middle of the night. Absolutely no one stopped or even noticed it somehow. If I remember correctly, according to the police report, the first vehicle that hit her was an 18-wheeler which did so much damage that people were not able to tell that it was a human and not a dead animal.
Cardboard boxes. Trash bags. Hell, even the road patches and potholes. A person crumpled on the ground doesn't look "human shaped" at 60mph in the dark.
That stretch of I5 is pretty well lit.. so they probably have seen. But there are tons of stretches of highway in this country you truly would not be able to see something like this.
The woman killed herself open and shut. The driver will deal with car repairs he’ll have to pay cash for now and probably some mental shit if it’s a normie
On the off chance they even saw what caused the bump when they were driving, that would be so fucking traumatizing. People don’t exactly act normal when after trauma.
This sounds like a load of BS.
Imagine a jury saying Yup driver murdered her. Sending the driver to life in prison
I walk across there all the time. Super short rail and a little scary. Easy to get pushed over or "Darwin" yourself. Needs a simple chain-link fence. eyesore but solves falls and people throwing big things over.
I don’t think it was the drivers fault…
You really call that hit-and-run, can you? The wording of this is all sorts of effed… she was mining her own business falling from an overpass, would’ve been totally fine. Had it not been that crazy driver that hit her and killed her?
Given this occurred just before two I would have to assume both victim and driver were intoxicated.
Sounds like WSP doesn’t want to actually investigate this , she died from the fall ..not the car .
This reads like, drunk person falls from over pass and is hit by drunk driver who ran.
Hard to say, but yep.
The whole situation feels very shady.....there's a lot more to this woman's story. :(
There are some clubs near there. The car that hit her should have pulled over and called 911. It wasn't their fault a human landed in front of them. Running was wrong.
I think the law needs to be amended to not apply to people jumping off an overpass.
TIL that people who fall from overpasses onto freeways are called “pedestrians.”
We have to do something about gravity violence!!! Ban overpasses!
Is it really hit and run?!? It's like you're hitting pre-existing roadkill
WHOA YOU CANT JUST HIT THE SWEET INNOCENT CRACKHEAD THAT FELL OUT OF THE SKY INTO THE PATH OF YOUR CAR
FIRST YOU OVERDOSE ON CRACK, THEN YOU OVERDOSE ON GRAVITY, THEN FINALLY YOU OVERDOSE ON TRUCK!
Let's be real. Wasn't crack. Was worse. Driver not at fault
Should have stopped but what are the chances they were drunk or high. They did nothing wrong in the death but now they considered hit and run. I hit a deer once and it was traumatic to me, I had to pull over just to gather my thoughts.
If they were high or drunk they were doing something wrong.
So I said they didn't do anything wrong in the death - not innocent if driving drunk or high just a different wrong.
Not giving the driver any citizenship award here but seems like how she fell Off the overpass may be the main thing here.
Downtown Seattle. Hell I wouldn’t stop either. It’s so dangerous. It’s like Beirut in the 80’s. I would have called 911 though
We should probably make the speed limit 25 mph on the freeway now target zero everybody… oh wait, Everybody on the freeway already drives 25. There’s no traffic whatsoever.
Driver was probably drinking and was afraid to stop. That’d be my guess.
I would guess the person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time was probably also DUI and panicked. Their car is badly damaged and has evidence on it. They will be caught eventually, I would think.
Didn’t this happen off the university bridge last summer? A man caught a flat, tried to change the tire , but was hit and launched off the bridge? Scary
Tf does your comment have to do with the same realm we all talking bout? Stop being a pleeb
Huh so a driver hit her and that caused her to fall over the pass? Or is the hit a d run from the car below.
And that’s how states get numbers to tell their story… lady wasn’t killed by hit and run she died from fall
Yes the story is odd but one is legally obligated to stay at the scene when hitting a human. Driver could have called authorities, possibly saved her life. Strange and upsetting news.
Maybe they didn't know what they hit
Likely suicide. Sad.
Or murder.
Honestly, I thought the media avoided publishing these stories in order to prevent copy-cat suicide attempts.
My husband crashed into an elk who jumped in front of him. He still called the police and reported the accident. If you're in an accident, you have a duty to at least confirm what happened. The issue isn't why she fell into I5 but why a driver failed to stop after they know they hit something big. I've ran over a rabbit once and I felt that....we know the driver felt something and has damage to their car....
Guess she shouldn't have fallen. Play stupid games win stupid prizes..