Is it not a personal injury accident if there is no contact? +

　Painful traffic accidents and incidents are reported from time to time.
　There are various pursuits and investigations into the "location of the problem," and it is overflowing with everything from individual-based, free-spirited condemnatory attitudes to analyses by experts and assertions about "how things should be," but as always, this is a mention from a different angle✍

　From a strictly objective point of view, accidents cannot be reduced to zero. Even if we do not compromise on "deepening our attention" as those who place ourselves in the same space-time, or even if we say "AI this and that."

　However, as an essential evaluation of various accident cases, there seem to be points of discussion that are sometimes "not emphasized" or "left out," so I will introduce and raise them below based on cases I have actually experienced.

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　I encountered near-misses twice in one night⚠
　I was running and was almost hit by a recklessly driven passenger car.

① Careless left-turning vehicle

　A main road with three lanes on each side. When running on the left sidewalk and crossing an intersection straight ahead.
　Even though it was night, the streetlights were bright, and visibility was not bad.
　Since I was moving forward at a speed of at most 11-12 km/h, the car in question caught up from behind, passed me, and immediately turned left, so there was no "mirror blind spot" factor.

　It turned left, approached right in front of me, and crossed the pedestrian crossing.I stopped suddenlyso I avoided contact.

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　It was not an atmosphere of reckless driving, nor was it a slow-down attitude concerned with the behavior of other traffic participants; it was an entry at a general left-turn speed. However, it is presumed that they ignored (probably did not notice) my presence. After all,they were observed driving with one hand while holding a mobile phone to their ear...

② High-speed driving on narrow alleys / residential roads

　It is impossible to "pass" oncoming vehicles. It is so narrow that just having a person standing against the wall on the road would ensure a slow speed. It is a residential area where you are forced to drive with the "what if" mindset against "jumping out" from intersections because visibility is poor.

　
　I saw a passenger car coming from another path, so I stopped suddenly to wait for it to cross the intersection to avoid it, and took a considerate stance of trying to move forward after letting it pass.

　It approached at an unexpectedly high speed, and if I had been careless, it would have passed at such close range that it could have induced contact or being caught in the wind, making my blood run cold😰

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　Although I was able to avoid any contact accidents because I took cautious actions and responded with decent reflexes (better than average for my age), these were nightmares where a difference of just a fraction of a second could have resulted in serious injury👿

　However, as I indicated in the title,

these events are not accidents

are they?

No matter how much you are startled, lose your balance, and hurt your joints.

Can you think about the essence of where the problem lies?

　The scale of interest and common phrases used by third parties when exchanging opinions on traffic accident-related reports—such as what kind of victim it was, the tragedy of it, whether the driver was elderly, whether the local government neglected a high-accident location, or whether it was caused by carelessness—vary in how they are manipulated and highlighted by the media. However, especially for those who drive themselves, the point that [no matter how careful you are, it cannot be reduced to zero] is a point I want to emphasize.

　Let's explore this based on the actual examples ① and ② above. Suppose it had become an [accident], what would be
to blame?

・How could you make contact!
・Such carelessness is absolutely unforgivable!
・Put yourself in the shoes of the victim and their family!

These sentiments fluctuate depending on the severity of the accident, and it could be that something like “luck” for the perpetrator ends up determining the gravity of the situation.
　I am by no means defending them, but from a neutral standpoint, accidents are things that “can happen no matter how careful you are.” Trying to condemn that blindly, I feel,

《the evil of traffic accidents》 can never be wiped away

I think.

　The recent examples ① and ② are easy for even children to understand.
　“Insufficiently careful driving🙇” is not the essence of the problem, is it?

① Driving while distracted
② Not slowing down on narrow roads

Shouldn't we consider such misconduct and rule violations as completely different issues from those caused (by mere chance) due to a lack of attention?

Rather than condemning those who have caused victims, I feel that a sense of crisis regarding the fact that 'there are many people in our immediate surroundings who do not fulfill basic requirements and are left unchecked'—even if they haven't happened to cause an accident yet—is a necessary prerequisite step toward a comfortable society.

In these cases, none of them resulted in an 'accident'.
When you encounter reckless people, you gain 'awareness'💡

I feel that many critiques lose sight of the point that it is not the accident itself that is inappropriate, but rather the very foundation of these attitudes that is far worse.

'Spinning wheels of logic' is similar in the following issues as well.

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