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* [[spoiler: Hanako-chan]] from ''HauntedJunction'' died like this, having been hit by a speeding car [[spoiler: when she was running away from her rockstar boyfriend's {{Loony Fan}}s.]]
* Happened to [[spoiler: Levin's girlfriend Karen]] in CaptainTsubasa. [[spoiler: She was in a hurry to go to Levin's match, carelessly tried to cross the road... and got hit ''by a truck'' for her trouble.]]

* The death of [[spoiler: Leon's sister and partner Sophie]] in Anime/KaleidoStar was like this. [[spoiler: In an attempt to get her and Leon disqualified from a very important circus contest, Yuri wrote a fake letter in which he asked Sophie for a meet-up. When she realised that she had been tricked ''and'' had few minutes to spare, Sophie tried to reach the stadium in time and crossed the streets carelessly, getting fatally hit by a truck.]]

* In Vladimir Nabokov's ''{{Lolita}}'', Humbert's wife Charlotte finds his diary, detailing his disdain for her and lust for her titular daughter, while said daughter is away at camp. Humiliated, she confronts him with the evidence and tells him she intends to take Lolita from the camp to a strict year-round boarding school and away from his grasp forever. However, crossing the street to post letters setting this plan in motion, she is killed by a passing motorist, leaving Humbert as Lolita's sole guardian.
** At least, that's [[UnreliableNarrator his version]]

* In ''[[EfATaleOfMemories Ef: A Tale Of Melodies]]'', [[spoiler:Yuuko]] gets hits by a car when she suddenly rushes onto the street without looking out for traffic. This is especially egregious, since she managed to survive some pretty bad stuff before that.

** Not to mention you could count the number of moving cars ''in both series'' in all of ''Otowa'' on one hand.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in Episode 1 of ''Manga/KotouraSan''. Haruka was able [[BigDamnHeroes to save both Manabe's life and her own]] simply because her {{Telepathy}} allowed her to see an oncomming, careless delivery van driver that's running the red light at full speed.

* In what is possibly the TropeMaker, and one of the few humorous examples of this trope, the BusterKeaton short "OneWeek" has this happen [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments to a house, via train]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* TexAvery liked to have characters Look Both Ways and, seeing no cars coming for miles, take one step into the pavement, only to be ran over immediately. Fortunately, since it's just a cartoon, they just get neatly flattened.

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* In an OurGang VerySpecialEpisode Mickey is hit by a car while running out into the street to catch a fly ball. The other Rascals spearhead a grassroots campaign called "1-2-3-Go" where you always look left, then right, then left again, before crossing a street, while chanting that phrase.

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* An episode of ''NurseWitchKomugi'' parodies this by having the title character hit by a car in the first scene and spending most of the episode as a ghost, then come BackFromTheDead and get roadkilled again, revived and flatttened about half a dozen times back to back.

* In ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', Terminators show utterly no ability to LookBothWays.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' - happens to a bounty hunter who was holding Daniel at gunpoint. To be fair, most other planets don't have cars or buses, or elementary school, so she likely never learned to LookBothWays.

* TexAvery liked to have characters LookBothWays and, seeing no cars coming for miles, take one step into the pavement, only to be ran over immediately. Fortunately, since it's just a cartoon, they just get neatly flattened.

* ''DesperateHousewives'' - Mike Delphino falls victim to this trope at the end of one of the earlier seasons, falling into a coma. The culprit? [[spoiler:Orson Hodge.]]

* In an ''[[Series/{{The X-Files}} X-Files]]'' episode with a genie, a man gets his wish of invisibility. He gleefully runs off, [[TooDumbToLive right into the path of a speeding semi truck]].

* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' - happens to a bounty hunter who was holding Daniel at gunpoint. To be fair, most other planets don't have cars or buses, or elementary school, so she likely never learned to LookBothWays.

* Parodied (and subverted) in ''NightOfTheComet'': After the elimination of the human race, one girl decides she no longer needs to look before crossing "against the light" -- and is almost run over by another survivor.

* ''El Orfanata'' made horror out of this trope.

* Happens to [[spoiler:Diana]] in ''{{Knowing}}''. [[spoiler:She doesn't get better.]]

* Happens to BradPitt's character (his original one, before Death borrows his body) in ''MeetJoeBlack''. Although the [[AnAesop moral lesson]] of the incident is not so much "look both ways before you cross the street; [[LostAesop more like]] "Don't stand in the street for two minutes blankly staring back at the girl you just met."

* Emily's fate in ''TheDevilWearsPrada'' (film version only) allowing Andy to feel a little bit less guilty about going to Paris instead of her.
* Played with in ''LocalHero'': Every time the hero steps out into the street he is nearly hit by a guy on a dirt bike. ''Every time.'' And this in a town so small that it only has one street and no other traffic.

* SlidingDoors.

* A RealLife example nearly happened in MidnightCowboy, leading to the immortal line "I'm Walking Here".

* In what is possibly the TropeMaker, and one of the few humorous examples of this trope, the BusterKeaton short "One Week" has this happen [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments to a house, via train]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* Iron Man gets hit by a truck in ''Film/IronMan3'' seconds after saving a bunch of people falling from the sky and breaks into pieces. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out Tony Stark was piloting the suit remotely and was never hurt.]]

* The first episode of ''MrShow'' features a Bob Odenkirk character lamenting how everything has "really changed", from his friend, to the leaves to a caterpillar (into a butterfly) to the . . . . traffic light. [[TooDumbToLive As he's crossing the street.]]

* In ''Film/{{Carnosaur}}'', an adolescent megalosaur misses its chance to act out the ''T. rex'''s role from ''TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' when it steps out onto a highway and is flattened by an 18-wheeler.

* Very cruelly played with in ''TheTwelveKingdoms'', where [[spoiler: Seishuu]] dies this way when hit by a carriage. The twist comes because [[spoiler: he had gone blind a short while ago, thus whether he looked both ways or not... it wouldn't have mattered]].

* The first episode of ''Mr Show'' features a Bob Odenkirk character lamenting how everything has "really changed", from his friend, to the leaves to a caterpillar (into a butterfly) to the . . . . traffic light. [[TooDumbToLive As he's crossing the street.]]

* In the ''{{Toon}}'' rulebook, "The Incredibly Busy Empty Street" is listed as a possible RunningGag for the [[DungeonMaster Animator]] to use. The street is empty. Look left? Empty. Look right? Empty. Take one step into the street? ''VROOOOOOOOOOM!!''

* Happens to that one guy from ''TheDevilsAdvocate'', although it's strongly implied that it was a hit.

* In ''[[Film/{{Superman}} Superman II]]'', Clark Kent carelessly walks out into a crowded Metropolis street and is hit by a cab. Of course, Clark is unhurt because he's really Superman.
* The leader of the Martian ship in the comedy ''SpacedInvaders'' charges from his spaceship onto the highway as soon as they land on Earth, howling his contempt for Earthlings. He is instantly smashed into the grill of a passing truck. Further spoofed when the less combative Martians interact with a human little girl:

* In Rob Zombie's film ''TheDevilsRejects'', after being the only survivor of the Firefly family's escapades at a motel, a young woman, [[spoiler:wearing the face of her husband,]] stops running from the motel room in the middle of a desert highway and is promptly hit by an 18 wheeler.

* [[spoiler:Akiko]] in ''{{Kanon}}'' is hit by an SUV near the end, [[spoiler:but survives thanks to Ayu's miracle.]]
** That totally wasn't her fault, though, since the driver that hit her was apparently an idiot who can't tell the difference between red light and green light. Either that, or was driving too fast for the snowy/icy conditions and simply ''couldn't'' stop.