Tenderloin Security Camera Shows Bus Running Over Man

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I've watched the video five times. I have no idea who had the green light. My questions for those on the bus would be: Did the driver appear to be in distress before hitting the victim?  Heart attack? blackout? seizure? If not, then the driver should be seriously punished and publicly shamed, enough to set an example to all those drivers who believe that going through an intersection a few seconds faster is more important than double-checking for humanity in the path of your people-flattener. How so many foolish people get a driver's license is a crime committed by the DMV.  As to the "immortal" pedestrians who don't look as they make all kinds of death-defyingly goofy moves - I say good luck when there's one of those foolish drivers on the other end of the action. Seriously, none of us are perfect - and we all need some luck.

Someone suffering a lot of broken bones I would NOT call 'ok'. I've had my share of verbally ripping some San Francisco pedestrians a new one for crossing against the light, as well as drivers who don't give pedestrians the right of way when the light's in the pedestrian's favor. As far as the surveillance video, there is no excuse for the driver NOT to have seen the man crossing the street.Several years ago, I was on a San Jose bus when the driver ran over a bicyclist as we were passing over a bridge.  I felt it happen but didn't see it happen (because I was sitting toward the back of the bus) and, apparently, neither did the driver.Too much arrogance in San Francisco on both sides of the problem.

As a former New Yorker now living in San Francisco, I can tell you why these things happen: Pedestrians are irrationally complacent about their safety while crossing the street. The laws "protecting" their right of way are not an impenetrable force field, but to watch people crossing the street in this town, you'd think they were. In the past year since I moved here, I have had close calls where I almost ran people down or ran over their dogs on a number of occasions. In each of these, the sun was low in the sky, causing me to not see people in the crosswalk, or the pedestrian was crossing in an unpredictable manner on the right of my vehicle. It's all well and good to assign blame, but what are people willing to give up to be right?