This is one example of why it’s important for people to have ready access to guns. This guy could easily have taken other people with him using this method of suicide.
I have a feeling if I’d hit him I would have kept going too. When somebody’s TRYING to get hit 1) it really doesn’t matter if they die from your car hitting them, because they’re determined to die one way or another, and bound to succeed soon, and 2) while this appears to have been a suicide, at first glance on the scene I would have guessed it to be insurance fraud, by someone making sure they get hit by a car that looks like it would be well-insured, in order to collect a huge settlement. I’m not going to fault the drivers who kept going in this situation. It obviously didn’t do any good when the first two drivers attempted to be helpful.
It's nice to see that, as a self-described conservative, you have particular respect for our laws and basic decency.