This scooter rider disregarded all safety practices and, as a result, got hit by a turning car.
Illinoisan and Redditor /u/Mwiziman shared surprising dashcam footage to the /r/dashcam subreddit from earlier last week (Sept 23, 2024) showing a scooter rider riding without their helmet recklessly entering an intersection with no regard for traffic around him.
As a result, a turning car hit the scooter rider, knocking them to the ground.
Check out his dashcam footage below.
[Viofo A229 Plus] University student on electric scooter gets hit by car.
byu/Mwiziman inDashcam
The incident happened in Normal, IL at the intersection of N Main St. and Willow St. (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)
As OP’s dashcam footage shows, he’s driving along N Main St.
Adjacent to him on the sidewalk is a scooter rider without their helmet, headed towards the upcoming intersection.
In Illinois, like most states, scooter riders are prohibited from operating their scooters on a pedestrian sidewalk.
A driver in a blue Honda CR-V just in front of OP in the left-most lane signals and turns onto Willow St a moment ahead of the approaching scooter rider.
The scooter rider doesn’t appear to slow, at all, and enters the intersection while the CR-V driver is already halfway through his turn.
The scooter rider gets hit at a slow speed, but it is enough to knock him to the ground.
“I checked on the guy after dropping my kids off and he seemed OK, but shaken up pretty badly.”
Most agreed in the comments the driver in the blue Honda CR-V did nothing wrong.
“There’s no reasonable action the car could have taken. They were already taking that turn fairly slow, the scooter was going much faster than the car (and faster than anyone should expect a sidewalk user to be approaching an intersection), they were likely in their blindspot the entire time, and the cars mirror was probably pointed at the shoulder since that’s where an adjacent lane would be,” /u/QuinceDaPence commented.
“As a scooter rider, I believe the rider was at fault. He was behind the car, and the car had its signal on for a while too. No helmet either,” /u/MrFastFox666 added.
Regardless if he’s classified as a scooter rider or pedestrian, someone was hit and injured at an intersection.
While cars must yield to pedestrians, it’s a two-way street.
This means pedestrians should also avoid dangerous behavior and watch for turning cars.
Drivers don’t expect pedestrians to be entering an intersection at full speed like the above video shows, regardless of whether they have the right of way.