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I'm so sorry for your loss. If he was hit while on the shoulder the other vehicle was not giving your brother clearance..but sometimes with a car coming head on and your brother on the shoulder (if that's where he was at) misjudging how far your rear view mirror sticks out, or just poor depth perception by the other drive probably caused the accident. I'm pretty much a rider that's a coward... I like to travel in packs and don't drive on long stretches without others around.... it still won't matter if you get a careless driver..just more casualties..

It was a very wide road out in the country with a very broad shoulder. It sounds like he was stopped off to the side, getting a drink of water when he was hit. At least the young black guy who hit him stopped and reported it.

As I read the papers, I have noticed that many people get hit while along the side of the road; cops giving tickets, people pushing vans, people sitting in broke down cars, people walking along side roads, people pulled off the road after getting into a minor accident. My theory is that the person's attention is caught by whatever is along side the road and the car jut sort of goes where the person's is looking. That seems to be especially true when the driver has been drinking, but it also seems to happen a lot when the driver has not been drinking.

I have come to the conclusion that along side a road is not a good place to be.