Man suffers life-threatening injuries when hit by a bus at Forest Hills

I can’t get beyond a commercial in the link.

What a horrific tragedy. I am always impressed by the busses managing that specific left turn and inching past the double parked car on the opposite corner that begrudgingly creeps forward in about a half a dozen selfish, reluctant increments until the bus can finally squeeze through only to then contend with the gauntlet ahead.

The short distance between the crosswalks at the bus entryway and exit must be inch for inch first among the top five most jaywalked spaces in Boston. Mostly, it’s teenagers who have to look tough who can’t dare be caught using the crosswalk, but there’s a fair cross section of grown ass adults who cautiously dash, carelessly saunter, or in stuporous stumble work their way across the street. Then there’s the irregular person who dashes across the street for their app taxi in blind impulsivity, or the noob who misreads and mis judges how to jaywalk here. In spite of that the crosswalks have no small number of regular users.

behave as if having the right of way makes them immortal. Yes, pedestrian vs. automobile always favors the pedestrian legally. But is that any comfort when you're pinned under a bus or become a hood ornament?

And what is this idea that pressing the walk button is unfashionable? Nobody is looking at you. At least, not until you're lying in a heap in the street, bleeding and broken.

File it under Darwinism.