Just a note to Thermoplastic Man - television 'news' is the worst form of reporting. Everything has to be condensed into a 30-second to two-minute script with a sound bite or two weaved in. There is no time for actual in-depth newsgathering or fact-checking, as the assignments editor pushes his or her crews to get out there and get on camera running from location to location. This is really compounded when the station's ownership and newsroom staff is coated in organizational bias.

A hit and run, is a hit and run.

How interesting. In this exact same type of story, http://www.wral.com/clayton-police-seek-truck-that-hit-pedestrian-late-thursday/11628900/ and subsequent reports concerning it, WRAL failed to mention several pertinent facts: The DRIVER was going the speed limit, the “victim” was drunk and actually sitting ON the roadway in the dark, the “victim” has a long history of this behavior and is well known by the police for doing it often. This was all public record. In the news reports they painted Mr. Clark as a “good” guy! How interesting that WRAL will print this story in a way that attempts to gain sympathy for the driver, and in the story of Mr. Clark, they paint him as a saint who did nothing wrong, while, in fact, the driver was just some guy driving home who had no idea that he had hit someone. Mr. Clark was “suspected” of intoxication, and sleeping in the road, and then fell into the trailer. How do I know? Because I AM that driver! WRAL is not worthy of being calle

Regardless of right-of-way, motorists and bicyclists must exercise caution to avoid colliding with pedestrians on the roadway, and must sound a horn to warn pedestrians, when necessary. - Rolling Along

You mean to tell me every time I see a pedestrian approaching a crosswalk, I have to slow down and blow the horn? I have the green light in a 45mph zone...the pedestrians doesn't have the right of way, if the signal said DON'T WALK. In a 25mph zone, there are crosswalks all over, so you have to stop for pedestrians approaching crosswalks, by STATE LAW. Imagine if every motorist that approached a crosswalk like that...there would be a whole lot of cars rear ending each other. IMO, they both broke the LAWS.

Regardless of right-of-way, motorists and bicyclists must exercise caution to avoid colliding with pedestrians on the roadway, and must sound a horn to warn pedestrians, when necessary. Vehicle operators must also exercise caution when observing any child or apparently incapacitated person in the roadway. [§20-174(e)]