[Orange1998]

You should look at this video, dangerous job.

http://www.khou.com/video/index.html?nvid=195054&shu=1

[tiger-one]

I did view the video. When I did stops at night I always approached the car from the passenger side, one reason was in the video, the other most of the time they cannot see you, or a shadow, and surprise. The risk is you might trip or step in a hole, tough to see in the dark.