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“Well who hasn’t almost run down a jogger who was doing something dumb like crossing against the light or running in the street at night with dark clothes on or running out in front of a car and expecting the car to stop or jogging in the street on a busy highway rather than a quiet neighborhood”

somehow I’ve managed to avoid almost running down a jogger in 40 years of driving.

I run facing traffic on a dead end road to nowhere with 8 ft. wide shoulders on both sides. for some reason the road is popular with fat-assed lookie lous in 4X4s who are lucky to make it from the couch to the refrigerator. had a motorist going my direction cross all the way over and see how close he could get to me without actually hitting me. flipped him off but he kept going. lucky for him he didn’t have a flat tire within the next mile.

Lucky you. In the last year I've had two almosts - both in the dark. One a woman in dark clothing ran out into the road while the light was red for her and green for me. I had to practically stand on the brakes to keep from hitting her, and by road, I'm talking about Peachtree industrial Blvd. which if you don't know Atlanta is a heavily trafficked four to six lane major thoroughfare I guess she was “in the zone.” or something and didn't want to interrupt the cosmic rhythms generated by not breaking your stride for something as trivial as traffic.

The other was similar; a group of three running (in dark clothes of course) in one of the two traffic lanes that were going in my direction. THe car in front of me had to swerve and blew the horn, and I followed suit, but they just kept on running down the road. BTW there is a sidewalk along that stretch of road, They just didn't feel they had to use it. Again something about the cosmic rhythms I guess

Nobody wants to hit a pedestrian unless of course you're in the black lives matter movement, and there isn't any excuse for deliberately mowing one down, but sometimes joggers just don't show the sense of a tapeworm.