# I may have saved a life yesterday

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-saved-a-life-yesterday/1014418 "2025-02-17T15:05:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-saved-a-life-yesterday/1014418/21 "2025-02-18T17:53:59Z")

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> [@running\_coach](#):
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> The road is a major throughfare, two lanes each direction plus a very wide bike lane. If I could see him from a quarter mile away, surely one other person could.

I was taking a taxi home once, and as we turned on to my street, I saw someone lying on the ground, right on the curb, plain as day on a not-very wide suburban street. The taxi driver didn’t see anything until I pointed the person out to them. Lots of people miss some very obvious things that are right in front of them, if they’re focussed on something else.

In this case, I was also coming home from the pub, and so was a little bit drunk, too, so it’s even worse that I saw it, and the driver didn’t.

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-saved-a-life-yesterday/1014418/22 "2025-02-18T17:59:26Z")

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I don’t think you should stress too much about what other people did or did not do - that’s outside of your control. The important thing is what you did. You did good.

j

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-saved-a-life-yesterday/1014418/23 "2025-02-18T18:21:28Z")

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I guess what’s bothering me is I almost cut the ride short and I would never have gone past him.

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