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Foreign woman walks into bus at Tokyo’s Shibuya Scramble intersection

Foreign woman walks into bus at Tokyo’s Shibuya Scramble intersection

by greatlyLearned

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  2. >It’s yet to be publicly confirmed how the woman managed to walk into the side of a moving bus

    Oh I think we know 📱 ✌️

  5. People are happily jumping at that woman, but the bus crossed at a late orange, and should have stopped. 

    I was hit by a bus while riding a bicycle, they tried to overtake me on-the-same-bloody-line, there was a vehicle on the next line and they pushed me and made me fall on the pavement. I was lucky that there was a kind human to react quickly and try and catch me (at the risk of themselves being harmed) otherwise that would have been a direct hit and probably serious injuries. 

    Be very careful of bus drivers they’re not well behaved (unlike, in my experience, most big truck drivers).

  11. The bus driver absolutely should have stopped. They were way too late driving into the crossing, the pedestrians were almost half way across the road! Especially when its such a big crossing that takes a long time to get through.

    Yes the woman should have been more aware but there were people ahead of her to her right on the crossing and she didn’t really have any reason to believe a bus was gonna come from her right.

    This sub gets really tedious with the blaming just because they are foreign.

    Edit: Downvoters, go to 2min 33sec in the video. If you think forcing pedestrians crossing on a green light to have to stop walking so that you don’t run them over is good driving I don’t know what to say.

  12. For a moment I thought the title meant she somehow managed to walk on board while the bus was still moving.

  14. Quite clearly a lady that wasn’t looking where she was going.

    But it does make me recall my biggest issue with the pedestrian lights in Japan. Regardless of this all stop that the article talks about. (I realise for the scramble this is the case)

    The fact that for many of the crossings. When the pedestrian lights are green there is a line of traffic (I think it’s the vehicles turning left) that can also be green and they don’t stop. It is the scariest thing about walking in Japan.

    Back home if the pedestrian lights are green all other lights are red. Not the case here in Japan.

  15. The bus was clearly well within her vision and peripherals if she was actually somewhat paying attention. But she clearly walked right into the bus without any realization the bus was there.

    Walking while looking at your phone and not paying attention to even your peripherals is super dangerous, especially in a highly populated area like Shibuya

  16. There was a group of people waiting for the light to cross. The woman was immersed in her phone, but noticed with her peripheral vision that other people started crossing, so she did the same. In particular, there was another woman walking ahead of her, but she did stop when she noticed the bus. Ideally this second woman should have reacted to prevent the accident, but it looks like she froze while the first woman walked directly into the bus. I’m not saying it’s her fault, but it was an unfortunate set of circumstances.

    The bus driver is at fault too, for crossing too late. After all, he should be familiar with this crossing, as bus drivers are always driving the same route.

  17. Obviously she should be checking both ways before crossing the street (not sure about elsewhere but it was drilled into my head as a kid) but drivers here give no fucks about breaking the law and driving when pedestrians have the right of way. Since the crossing was green the bus driver looks to be 100% to blame legally, going through an orange/yellow or red light. This is the exact situation the “stop unless it is not safe to do so” rule exists for the orange/yellow light, to act as a buffer for stuff that might happen out of your control. “Always assume everyone else will do the wrong thing”- in this case it came true.

    I also laughed that the go kart leader had stopped beyond the solid white “stop here” line, so breaking the law too lol.

  18. How does this make international news? I remember when visiting Japan a few year ago there was a lady that was hit by a bus and it made their headlines the entire week. Really, did nothing else more interesting happen in Japan than a woman walking into the side of a bus?

  19. “Caught on camera: bus enters intersection, hit a pedestrian at the Shibuya scramble intersection”

  21. WHY the fuck is foreign necessary in the title? It’s not in ANY WAY relevant to the incident.

  23. It’s funny seeing all these anti-foreigner posts here now. It’s like, for every one dumb tourist, there are probably 1000 who go about their vacations normally in Japan, respecting boundaries and rules.

  27. Look at the video in the article.

    The bus driver is definitely at fault. Yellow means stop, not “try to see if you can make it before it turns red”.

    The pedestrian crossed when the light was green, the fact that she didn’t look left and right is bad, but she had the right to cross.

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