Prius pedestrian accident - Seattle

The article mentioned life-threatening injuries. I hope she recovers fully.

 

"let's get the facts and data". Hopefully that will happen but more likely it will play out like a circus with Toyota getting the short end of the deal. But with the spill, perhaps not.

 

Another story is at the Seattle PI.

My normal sources don't mention this one, only a different story, where an elderly woman was struck and killed by a pickup backing into a parking space.

Seattle news outlets have not been hyping local Toyota accidents. There have been plenty of pedestrians hit and killed, and driver error crash stories, and few involve Toyotas. The vehicle make often goes unmentioned, and I've even spotted a Toyota logo in pictures where the story didn't mention make.

 

I know here at Prius Chat this is given light because it's a Prius and Pedesterian accident.

But really it's a vehicle vs pedesterian accident first. I hope everyone is alright. I find some of the comments to the original article interesting. Judging from some of the commentary it seems that area has had and does have some speeding issues even before this incident.

So ultimately this just might turn out to be a very unfortunate pedesterian/vehicle accident but one that has nothing or little to do with the fact that the vehicle happens to be a Prius.

Ultimately I hope the pedesterian is alright.

I think if anyone was contending that it was a failure of "The Prius" as opposed to just an unfortunate accident you would have NHTSA and Toyota involved much as has happened recently with other high profile incidents.

Accidents can happen with Prius, just as unfortunately as with any other vehicle, and that might just be the case here. Unfortunately for Toyota, big color pictures of dented Prius Hoods with the Toyota Emblem prominently in view would be unwelcome at any time.

But for now, until and unless more information surfaces, or more controversy, I'd just file this under unfortunate accident. Nothing more, nothing less.