Fatally Struck in AU

Once again at Approximately in the Morning 10:45 am on 5th of December 2016 at the Intersection of Lyon and Somerset in Ottawa, Ontario. A Pedestrian was fatally struck by the Yellow Dump Truck. As per the Eye Witnesses, the truck was taking right turn onto the Somerset St West from Lyon. The sole witness who was also victim’s friend said It was Green light for the Lyon and the walk sign was ON crossing Somerset St West. , The truck was not speeding nor was the pedestrian in any kind of rush. The Police have said that the matter is now under investigation. The pedestrian did look on both side and the truck was indeed stopped at the signal.

Eye Witness
The Victim friend do have few theories as to what have had happened, “It seems like both of them made a judgement call in the split second and lost visibility of each other,”

Truck Driver
As per the Truck Driver,” He stopped at the signal and made the decision to turn because he saw pedestrian standing at the intersection. He thought that they were planning to continue walking down east on Somerset, because if they wanted to go down on Lyon they should have continued walking instead of stopping at the Intersection and it was at that very moment that the truck looked at the intersection and saw two pedestrians standing still, and turned right, The moment he started to turn he lost visibility of the people standing on the side walk.”

Victim
As per the fatal victim, who was walking with the witness.”I was enjoying double double bought from the Tim Horton’s on the not so cold winter of December, Because of the slippery roads we were walking slowly and did stop at the intersection looking both ways. I did made an eye contact with the Truck Driver and since the Truck was stopped and the Walk Sign was ON for crossing the Somerset St West, I decided to Walk, Now how did I walked into the Truck is because I was wearing a Hat which blocked my side view, and the moment the truck drivers started to take turn he lost the view as well”

AU
Thankfully this happened in the alternate universe(AU), In this universe however the actual event was that the witness pulled back the victim, hence saving his life.

This is an outstanding issue and claims many happy lives daily, where the drivers may be in rush or the pedestrian may be in rush, or they simply didn’t see each other due to there view being blocked either by reflection, or anything else.

THE SOLUTION
A product that doesn’t require line of sight, That is Install an ambient noise horn in all of the extra load vehicles taking a right turn, because voice travels in all directions and doesn’t require line of sight. The existing horns in the cars could be re purpose, since the button for horn is usually on steering, if for some reason the driver doesn’t want to sound horn he could press a button or some other mechanism to turn off the horn when not required.