Yes very brutal

..wow, I hope she's ok...to me they both seemed to be at fault..she ran from the other side of the road so he had time to see her, she didn't just dash out from his side but obviously she was very silly as well...it was really unclear whether he stopped but if he didn't, I think he'll be fairly screwed...

I think it's clearly her fault. You're not meant to run across the road, also she is supposed to stop at the central traffic island.

I do hope she wasn't seriously hurt.

I agree she didn't do what she was supposed to do and I feel bad for the driver but as much as she was supposed to stop and make sure the road was clear he was supposed to slow right down coming to a zebra crossing and make sure no one was trying to cross. It will more than likely end up falling on him because drivers (rightly or wrongly) usually have to be more responsible than pedestrians on the road (here anyway)

I hit an 8 year old girl a good few years back who ran across the road in the same way.

the girl made a mistake, we all make mistakes, but she will be someone's child,
there seems to be a lot of heatless members on here
the driver was not at fault.

Yep I don't know the rules of driving but slowing down coming to a zebra crossing makes sense, so I guess yea he's ultimately to blame.

Yeah especially at a crossing like this which is always gonna be constantly busy, she was very careless but he should have been slowing down anyway which would have given him time to react to her crossing the road especially when as Ammi mentioned she crossed from the other side of the road

i think she might of been ok if she stay on the crossing as the impact was not on the crossing it self just bad timing as the car that hit her had no other cars behind it

#greencrosscode

Dumbass ran straight into it. I can't feel bad for her for that.

Same.

Kids are sometimes stupid and dash into roads... It isn't funny when they get knocked down though is it? so the 'lol' and 'lmao' comments are nasty and unnecessary whoever was at fault.

Tbh though if she walked away from it completely unscathed, just a bit of bruising or something, she won't learn and most likely would do something equally stupid again.

..I think she would learn though Creggle..it's like IthinkIloveyoutoo said, she was hit by a motorcycle and something like that/the impact and what might have been is not something that would leave you..and the same for the driver as well..(I hope he/she did stop btw...)...there is no question that the pedestrian did wrong but the whole point at crossings is to be aware of pedestrians/slow down sufficiently to be able to stop and she came right across the road from the other side so they did have time to see her and should have..I can only assume they were just looking straight ahead..?..which would be negligent/careless...the 'what could have been' is also something they will learn from as I do think there was equal fault here...

What, so serious injury is the only way to teach kids to be safe on roads?
I have been both saddened and sickened by some of the comments in this thread. Maybe I don't watch enough GTA but just the sight of the accident upsets me.
She must have thought the approaching car would stop as it should as she ran and only attempted to swerve when she noticed it hadn't, the car never even attempted to brake... the didn't see her coming at all which as said approaching a zebra crossing is negligent.

Daily Mail doing their usual thing of picking up on something viral days later: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...bum-cover.html

Does clear up some things though: