History Main / LookBothWays

** Principle Kobayakawa is murdered this way by The Conspiracy after he tries to go to the police. As he's crossing the street in front of the police station, they cause him to have a mental shutdown so that he's still standing in the road when the light changes and a truck hits him.

* Parodied in the ''Webcomic/NerfNow'' mini-arc "Isekai'd", where truck-kun [[spoiler:Is hit by another, bigger truck, a mere second because it could do what it's known for]].

* The TV movie ''Film/WEIRDWorld'' has a rather interesting example of this. One of the scientists working for the titular organization discovers time travel and reveals that she knows she will die in a couple of days. On the day in question, her brother comes to her to steal her research and takes them both back in time half an hour to leave the facility. She tries to escape and throws what she pretends is her research file into the road. He goes to pick it up, discovers that it's actually her ID badge, and gets run over by ''his past self''.

Because this is a '''DeathTrope, beware of Unmarked Spoilers!'''

Interestingly, the driver almost never slows down (if they try, they will brake so hard that their wheels lock up and they end up not slowing down anyway) and never swerves, even if the person was in the street long enough for them to react. If the victim is "lucky" they might just honk (might). This, however, can be often a case of TruthInTelevision. Drivers are humans, not automated machines, and a quick and unexpected obstacle that shows up in the car's way, such as someone running, may not give the driver time enough to react and cause a traffic accident. In most fictional instances, especially in Anime, this also results in the driver being [[TheGhost rarely if ever seen]] and usually getting [[KarmaHoudini zero repercussions for their actions]], be it legally or emotionally.

* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'' has this happen in its ''very first minute''. Sakura literally runs out her door and is hit by a speeding truck; the whole thing is given a montage set to death metal. Of course, she ends up as one of the titular zombies later on. [[spoiler:Then it happens ''again'' in episode 10. Being a zombie this time, it doesn't kill her, but she does regain her memories of when she was alive and forgets everything she experienced after she became a zombie.]]

* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Cunning Stunts", Bill is trying to commit suicide, so he stands in the way of an oncoming truck. Tim and Bill put up a railway crossing barrier to stop the truck, [[RuleOfFunny only to get run over by a train]].

* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon''; in a first for the series, stepping into traffic now runs the risk of the main character getting hit by a car and losing a solid chunk of health. This feature was carried over into the next game in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' franchise, ''Videogame/LostJudgment''.

Can invoke DiabolusExMachina if done particularly suddenly, or SchrodingersGun in video games in which the vehicle crosses your path ''only'' if you didn't look first. Nearly always invokes MoodWhiplash. Can sometimes be averted by a {{Heroic Sacrific|e}}ial DivingSave. Compare CarFu, where someone is ''trying'' to hit someone else with a vehicle.