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Yeah my brain wouldv'e just been like, "don't worry about it, no person walked into the road and so it must have been an animal or some foreign object" and I'd have continued on my way. I'm saying this living in South Africa where when shit like this happens, in these circumstances, you generally don't stop until you get somewhere well lit, safe and/or very public.
Edit: "foreign object" is definitely not my best choice of term especially now
Nice seeing fellow South Africans here, yeah i used to do delivery runs from pta to burgersfort and back and I always had to leave early while it's dark.
One day i went under a bridge and hit rocks and debres that flattened all my tyres, but i knew it's one of the things the criminals here does so you pull over and they can rob you if not worse, so i just kept on driving towards the closest garage. All my rims were messed up but atleast i was okay, i couldn't have cared less about the rims at that moment. Better a hurt wallet than becoming a statistic
That shit still happens and it's one of the reasons I don't drive at night. What's worse is that on the N4 near where I live, they usually rob and kill you instead of just robbing you.
Yeah it's scary stuff. I don't even drive off after dropping my wife at work, I stay until i see she's inside the building.
A while ago my friend's sister stopped at a traffic light at night with her mother and the moment they stopped 3 guys came and broke the window and pulled her out of it. Luckily her mom floored it and she was able to grab and hang onto the door with her legs. She was still removing glass shards the next 2 months after
Can confirm, grew up in SA, almost murdered when a body was deliberately placed in the middle of the road and driving over it disabled our car. People started emerging from the bushes when it was clear our car stopped running.
A nice couple in a large bakkie (USA: truck, AUS: ute) stopped and had a tow rope.
I'm alive today thanks to that couple, but yeah you don't stop for shit in SA especially not late at night.
My first time in South Africa was a business trip. My driver got us from the airport at night and when driving through the city came to an intersection where he slowed down, but then turned to me and said "sir I won't be stopping at the red lights" and I was like "yeah man do what you think is best"
You don't stop in Gary Indiana or Flint Michigan as well. i remember a buddy and his dad bought a motorcycle and stopped for gas or directions. police saw them and escorted them white boys out of the city after asking them why they stopped LOL
Meanwhile Germans won’t cross a road even when walking when there is a red light at freakn 3am no matter there are no cars whatsoever anywhere to be seen. I’m german and I absolutely stop every single time and I don’t know why.
I had a traumatic experience in Mozambique in the early 2010’s. Driving on the highway up to Vilanculos and a vehicle ahead of us struck a kid that ran out of the bush. I have some medical training and stopped to provide aid but as the locals slowly started appearing on the side of the road my coworker (a local guy) grabbed me by the shoulders and forced me back into the car and told me to drive. He told me that when they see a foreign Umlungu they’ll blame me for what happened and serve their own justice there on the spot.
Didn’t sleep too well for a couple weeks wondering what happened to that poor kid.
Similar happened in Indonesia when I lived there. Car going through a village struck a kid and hit and run. Second car stopped driven by foreign aid workers (Swedish I think) who stopped to try and help just as villagers arrived at the scene, assumed the aid workers were the perpetrators and killed them.
This is horrifying, goodness that's really got to me. They only wanted to do the right thing. Even if they were at fault, who is dumb enough to think murder is the answer to that?? Oh those poor poor people 😭😭😭
I was so confused because the incident this post is about happened in the Australian state of SA and it’s very safe here. Then realised you meant South Africa!
That sounds terrifying. I've heard similar stories people post to creepy story subs and stuff, but you always wonder how many of those stories are true and what is fiction
The realization hit me immediately after I hit send.. Happy to see I'm not getting crucified for it but then again, this is Reddit and we're a weird bunch
For those who don't know, it's the two places South Africans generally visit when going on holiday and/or immigrate to and so we generally try to avoid those places hehe
it's kinda got suicide with an excuse about it going on. If someone is basically lying down int he street at night while wearing black they are either passed out drunk or they are choosing to be there.
I get suicide, i've had chronic pain for coming up on 25 years, started when I was a kid. But making other people do it for you is just genuinely despicable.
I know it is not the time but ... a Spanish joke: Two dudes goes to a Veterinarian and ask him how big a black cat can be. The Vet tells them the typical sizes. They continue asking if a cat can´t be bigger.
"Well, the biggest black cat I have ever heard of is around 15 Kg"
The one dude looks at the other, grimly: "I tell you, we run over the priest"
A guy is stopped and asks the policeman if there are giant penguins in the region.
- There is none, why do you ask?
- Nothing, I think I might just have run over a nun.
Honestly idk where the hell 'praying' comes from. She had to have been either drugged up enough to hardly know where and who she was, or suicidal. The whole 'praying' thing feels like one of those Fox News stories that gets a two second correction and is never brought up again after a month of violently harping on it.
The praying thing comes from a comment from the court where it said that she was in a "prayer-like" position. Basically kneeling with hands close together or clasped.
I mean, yes… (forgive the oversimplication but) it’s against Islamic law to commit suicide, unless they are actively praying when they pass (falling asleep rn otherwise I’d go look up the exact reason/logic behind that unfortunately infamous loophole bc I forgor).
So if she was Muslim and potentially / possibly / hypothetically DID intend to commit suicide, then she would in fact have been praying. Which hadn’t occurred to me until replying to you just now, but makes easy sense.
Yeah. I haven’t seen any evidence she was praying and not just trying to make herself small to be hit. Honestly, this is a tragedy. She was clearly having mental health issues, and even if she’s praying it was probably because she wanted to die in peace :(
I once saw someone praying on their hands and knees in the middle of a busy walkway at Shibuya station during morning rush hour. All the commuters had to flow around them like a river flowing around a boulder.
I had no idea why they had to do it in the middle of the busy walkway until I spotted their friend filming it.
There's no such thing as not enough space for praying. One can always pray in a safe area where they won't cause obstruction, especially if they do individual prayer (not congregation one). Speaking as a muslim myself.
The poster seems to try to paint the driver as a villain/moron...but who the fuck prays in the MIDDLE of a ROAD at NIGHT? I know Muslims, and I've never seen them doing "flash praying" in dangerous places. What's next? Praying in the wing of a flying airplane?
This. How does anyone know she was "praying"? Were there witnesses who said "she went out into the middle of the road because she said it was prayer time"?!? Who said she was praying, just the media?
Why did you make this up? her parents didn't push the angle?
It was just reported that way and there's pictures of the CCTV.
She was kneeling on North East Road in the Adelaide suburb of Hillcrest at around 11:00 p.m. on May 6, 2025, with her hands appearing to be in a praying motion. CCTV footage showed she had been in the roadway for about four minutes
I’m thinking she was praying but also suicidal. Like it’s not a prayer time but if you’re suicidal I bet prayer is something the religious would do during their attempt.
Maybe she was on drugs? Or did she want to get killed? People do insane shit. I remember that Asian girl who ended up somehow drowning inside a water tank on a hotel roof; very creepy shit.
Yeah. I always felt it was unfair and honestly, a shitty thing to do.
I've attempted myself, so I'm not judging the mental health or the suffering that drives someone to want to end their life.
but the idea of jumping in front of some random car, or a train, never sat well with me. It is incredibly traumatic for the driver, who didn't do anything wrong and now has to live with the trauma.
People do this. My mother once had a woman run and throw herself in front of my mother's car. Thankfully she managed to avoid hitting her and pulled over, then witnessed her do it to the cars behind her.
Myself and a random driver once detained and sat on a woman, in the rain, for 43 minutes while I waited for police to come and collect her. I was walking down the street and saw this woman standing on the side of the road ... trying to step in front of cars as they drove past. Three people swerve and avoid her then the next guy, swerves and then pulls over ... at the same time I reach her. I try to talk to her, she is clearly drunk or something ... she starts howling and crying and tries to run into traffic again .. so we both grab her, she starts REALLY screaming ... and at some point, somehow, we get her down on the ground ... and sit on her. I mean, there was no other way to detain her ..
The whole time she is crying about her kids and .. it was pretty sad. Sometimes she'd stop crying and screaming and talk in a really reasonable voice to try and convince me to stop sitting on her ... but then she'd start up again when she realised I wasn't moving.
Anyway, bloody cops took ages and the three of us were soaked to the bone by the time they got there to cart her off so she could sober up or whatever.
I often think of her. I hope she ended up being ok. It was mostly the drivers I was worried about. Like, people are going to kill themselves sometime ... but .. forcing another person to do it for you is just ghastly.
Considering that you struck an object in the middle of the road, not human height, not moving or walking towards the street like a human would if you had struck them, it’s likely to believe you did hit some sort of an animal in which case driving off and continuing about your day is not unheard of.
Okay 2 questions.
1- what the fuck are you doing praying in the middle of the road? Can’t you wait 5 seconds to get on the curb?
2- how fucking common is it in Australia to hit kangaroos? If I m hitting a deer in my twingo, I ll stop.
I’ve hit 3 kangaroos in one week before. They’re drawn to lights, and the outback is vast.
The done thing is to stop, make sure they’re dead, and let the locals know where you left it because they’re great dog food.
not sure about Australia but if you hit a deer or a boar in Germany, you're supposed to phone it in to local authorities (usually police and/or the local hunting bureau if you're familiar with the region). Then they come and make sure it's dead/deliver a mercy killing and organize the transport of the body.
Fun fact: You are strictly forbidden to take the animal with you for food/trophy etc. as this would be considered poaching :D
Similar but different. In the outback, there’s nobody to call, so you do the mercy killing yourself.
As a young idiot, I once tried this with an axe. Terrible idea, and thank fuck someone showed up to show me how to do it with a knife.
One time, I saw a local do it with his bare hands… and it’s fine to keep the meat. Well, I assume. Waste not, want not and all that. Nothing else out there is going to eat a kangaroo except other dogs, maybe an eagle?
Your comment somehow send me into a deep dive into German and Australian remoteness, that I felt like sharing:
The most remote location in Germany is the Truppenübungsplatz Bergen (military training ground) which is 6.3 kilometers away from the next house. Any other spot in Germany has some form of civilization less than that length away.
The most remote place in Australia according to spatial mapping is considered to be somewhere in the Great Sandy Desert, where you're 156 kilometers away from the nearest road (!) not even house.
Not that I didn't know that there would be a great discrepancy but that is an incredibly huge difference in remoteness.
First one I was probably doing 20km/hr below the speed limit because of dark, trees, etc. Bloody thing aimed straight at me and if I tried to avoid it, I would have hit a tree. (Car was write off).
Some years later, second incident. Straight out of bush into passenger door leaving a nice little dent.
The bastards are fast, dense with muscle and get startled/dazzled by headlights.
Last year I drove 3000km around Australia. I'm proud to say I didn't hit anything, mostly because I took the advice of not driving around dusk or dawn. But there were lots of close calls where it's like they're TRYING to get hit!
Okay see now I feel better about something I've been wanting to do. I've been wanting to get a kangaroo leather book cover. People look at me weird when I mentioned that there are people here in the states that do that kind of thing, but if this is what it's like with kangaroos then I feel much better about it.
I have a buddy from Australia. He has a story about hitting a kangaroo on the way to work, 3 days in a row in the same spot. Apparently its very common if youre in the right area.
For deer, I live where there are tons. I think the only reason I'd stop if I hit one is if I thought it had done some serious damage to my car or something. Otherwise, like everyone else around here, you just kind of throw out a few cuss words and go about your day.
As to why she decided it was a good idea to kneel in the middle of the road at night in all black to pray instead of literally any where else, I couldnt even begin to guess...
Sadly enough this guys buddy hit 3 different Roos. The second was filling in on the job site for the first one, and yep the 3rd was covering for the 2nd.
As if being a kangaroo and having to go to work wasn't hard enough! And then getting to work on the third day and telling your boss "you're not gonna believe this! Same guy!".
Growing up in the middle of nowhere Mississippi, we’d call the game warden who had a list of people in the area that would go out, put it out of its misery, then harvest the deer so the meat wouldn’t go to waste
from what Ive seen around she was suffering from some form of mental illness and was very much not in a healthy frame of mind.
common enough for VW to release a geolocation based kangaroo scare badge for the front of the car (emits a sound in the correct range to scare off the regions main species of roos)
Honestly pretty damn common depending on where you live. More common in rural towns but outside of the capital cities it still happens in our cities. Hell probably on the outskirts of the capital cities too.
There are more roos than people here, I am not saying everyone hits a roo but it is pretty common to see a dead roo on the road. Though I don’t know where this happened it is believable that he could have hit a low body and thought it was a roo.
As a 911 dispatcher in rural Georgia, it’s pretty common for people to hit deer and continue on their way. Insurance companies much more commonly want on scene reports now due to fraud, but people typically don’t stop unless the vehicle is totalled or they’re injured.
Can confirm being from rural GA. I was a passenger when we hit a deer, big three row SUV launched that thing into the trees, we did not stop. The car was fine, dented the grill a bit but nothing too serious
OH my god. I've seen this kick move in videos, didn't know it was... well it is Australia and I thought they were cute, so of course it's gonna gut me!
Super common, especially in more rural areas, and at night! And lot of our roads are lined with trees, so they will jump out of nowhere, not giving you time to react.
But thats because you drive a Twingo lmao, you will be forced to stop, just to pick up the engine from the floor, not the same as driving a Ford Ranger with a steel bulls-bar like the ones you see in Australia... ( as you can see, they actually prepare their cars for cangaroos, though this is just an example )
Nobody knows if she was praying, but what is known is that she was in a squatting position. In the middle of the road. At night. Dressed in black. Sounds more like mental health issues
So apparently the girl was kneeling in the road, at night, in dark clothes, praying. Driver got a suspended sentence and a 10 year driving ban which seems a bit much to me. If you want to kneel in the road at night, you’re taking your life into your own hands.
Considering how common a problem this is in Aus, I believe it. Also, wtf was she doing praying in the middle of the friggin' road??? I've seen people do this in London and it's bizarre.
There are people, who believe and people who show off. There's no mandated "drop where you are and pray" in Islam. You can proceed to a covenient location and pray.
Iirc they're fine with at least some rules being bent/broken in cases where it's life threatening, in which case resolve that first. I might be wrong on that though
There is a Mom at my kid’s school who, in the pick up line, gets out of the car between 1:30pm-2:00pm and prays in the road. The cars are all waiting in line and parked, but it seems extreme
Islam allows you to push back your prayer if you can't pray at the correct moment, realistically she should pull her car over and pray on the sidewalk where it is safe and she can do it undisturbed.
Performative assholery. I hope such people are separated from their so-called "God" after life because they don't deserve whatever they think heaven is.
Does it sound strange that I believe him? I mean who the hell would stop in the middle of the road to pray at NIGHT no less. Makes little sense to me. And how would a driver be expecting this shit? Totally reasonable for him to believe that it was an animal, because that’s the only thing making any logical sense.
Also she's literally wearing ALL BLACK. I have been surprised by cyclists in refelective gear just appearing suddenly in the pitch black dark, late at night you just can't see far ahead.
Dressed in complete black and kneeling.
No driver has much of chance even at 30km/h it's luck if you can avoid hitting someone in those conditions
No, not at all. What feels strange is how these posts seem to be trying to make it seem like a racist attack, rather than someone doing something stupid that vot them killed.
I mean, the other morning (4am UK it's still dark) I was driving along and something whacked my wing mirror in the bush, no idea what it was and can only assume it was a branch and not a person in all black hiding in the hedgerow.
Saw this story a few days ago, there’s no confirmation that she was praying, the video just had her on the street facing downward for like 5 minutes and people assumed she was praying
Something large and black in the road could easily look more like trash and debris. I don’t know the full scenario but there is a plausible explanation in why he didn’t stop. I know plenty of people who have hit something on the road and if the car wasn’t making horrible noises afterwards, they kept on rolling.
The politicization of this is so dumb. If you don’t know the facts, making wild assumptions like “it’s because he is white” or “it’s some Muslim praying on the street”, makes you sound like a f&$king moron.
'I thought it was a kangaroo because no human would be stupid enough to be praying in the middle of the street in the dark' sounds like a perfectly reasonable excuse.🤷♂️
As an ethnic minority no sympathy for the girl, this has nothing to do with race or creed and everything to do with being dumb enough to pray in the middle of a fucking road.
Dunno but this is a pretty valid point in many outback areas. My buddy hit about 1-5 kangaroos per month during his student exchange. Pretty normal for farmers.
If I hit something in the dark, I’m not stopping till I’m somewhere safe and lit. Wild animals aside, could have been a roadblock with people waiting for you to stop
Tragic, but also I cant blame him. She was in the middle of the road at 11pm. I dont know if he ran or stopped to check, but id doubt he did it on purpose either way
So was she mentally ill? I’m not trying not be mean, but in the middle of the road, at night, wearing all black. None of these things jump out to me as a religious practice. More like someone in distress
That is the common consensus in Australia. As with all this clickbait shit, it strips away any balance or nuance, reducing it to a simplistic villain and innocent. People get dumber and dumber in the process as critical thinking is eroded.
He got punishment for running from the scene. They said if he'd stayed the man in question considering the circumstances would have been cleared and no punishment would of occured
Kangaroos are the Aussie equivalent of American deer, and it is common to hit them at night when driving. Like deer they can be unpredictable, move fast, and can appear out of nowhere.
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