Did you feel a bump just then, dear?

[jagnet]

Body found on A3

BBC said:

Police said the dead man was a pensioner from Woking. His body was hit by a number of drivers who were unaware it was in the road....Officers appealed for any witnesses to come forward, particularly any drivers travelling northbound along the A3 whose vehicles may have hit something.

I'm sorry, but just how distracted whilst driving do you have to be to hit a body at 60mph+ and not realise?

I appreciate it was dark at the time (though with these additions called "headlights" that come on all cars now I don't see how you could miss it), and it's not the first thing you expect to see on the A3 (but then neither are many of the bits of debris you can find there). But a human body lying in the road and you drive over it oblivious? That's pretty shocking tbh.

[eybic]

I agree with you in principle but would a body actually look like a body when you are driving at 60mph in the dark? Probably just look like a load of rags. But yeah you would certainly notice hitting it surely?????

[anonymous-user]

I understand that in the dark you might struggle to see something relatively small lying in the road (or at least not see it early enough to react), but how could you hit something like that and not stop?

Even if I hadn't realised what it was I'd still stop to make sure I hadn't smashed my suspension to buggery!

[peterg1955]

It was chucking it down last night and gusting winds as well may have meant some people thought it was a fallen branch or something... 'hitting' doesn't necessarily mean running over a whole body, it could have been a glancing blow or just over a hand or foot - and if they were HGVs they may well not have felt anything!

[jagnet]

I suspect a case of the usual nose to tail, no time to spot something in the road between it passing the car in front and your car, poor visibility etc.

Given how many drivers manage to hit other vehicles without realising it probably shouldn't surprise me.

Just such a horrible way to go - left at the side like some piece of roadkill, urgh. Not the way I'd choose if I could.