[mike_hock]

You don't crash into a stationary post or a pedestrian on highways. If you crash into a stationary post, you were texting. If you crash into a pedestrian, WTF was the pedestrian doing there.

[bobthepanda]

There are plenty of state “highways” with businesses and residences immediately abutting. Most road fatalities are not occurring on the interstates.

[Ensorceled]

The pedestrian is most often walking in a crosswalk and getting hit by drivers breaking the law (illegal turn, distracted driving, not yielding)