We tried to do our exercise walk at night with flashlights. We had to quit becuase for one reason or another I kept getting disoriented. I KNEW I was away from the street but kept heading further into the grass and walking on an angle. I would straighten up and go again and the same thing happened. Just could not get my bearings. Perhaps the young man might have experienced the same thing...especially if they say he had stepped out onto the road. No matter...it is very sad. The loss of a tremendous student, son and friend to so many. God bless all of those who love him. Hard times for certain.
Amen to those sentiments.
Yes, there are many possibilities. An obstacle in his path could have caused him to step around it at that particular point in time. Don't know if there were eyewitnesses, or if the driver even saw the young man before he hit him. He did stop and try to help him, and called 911. That probably prevented others from hitting him too.
It is one of those things that makes you wish to turn back time, and have the young man, as well as the driver, to be more careful.