History Main / LookBothWays

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Near the end of the movie, Regina gets hit by a bus while arguing with Cady. She sustains moderate damage; the main effect is that she spends the rest of the movie encased in some kind of spine-straightening braces. As a result for the whole mess, Cady gets [[YouAreGrounded grounded by her parents]]. Then at the very end the "treatment" for the new junior Plastics is being hit by a bus as well. [[spoiler:This is also just a joke, the girls aren't really hit.]]

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Near the end of the movie, Regina gets hit by a bus while arguing with Cady. She sustains moderate damage; the main effect is that she spends the rest of the movie encased in some kind of spine-straightening braces. Cady's narrating voice fakes the viewer out for a second by claiming that Regina died, but immediately afterwards she says, "Just kidding." Then at the very end the "treatment" for the new junior Plastics is being hit by a bus as well. [[spoiler:This is also just a joke, the girls aren't really hit.]]

* One of the first sufferers of the disease in ''Film/{{Contagion}}'' becomes so delirious from it that he ends up wandering into the street and is hit by a truck.

** Averted in the case of [[spoiler:Ran's IllGirl little sister Aya-chan]], since it turns out [[spoiler:it was intentional]].

* ''Series/{{Forever}}'':

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
** In "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead", a college kid coming down from a bad trip runs away from the cops and straight into the street, where he gets run over by a car.

* Happens to [[spoiler:Diana]] in ''Film/{{Knowing}}''. [[spoiler:She dies by an oncoming truck coming from her left while driving a stolen SUV to chase after some guys who were "kidnapping" the kids but actually passes away at exactly 12 midnight.]]

** In an episode involving a genie, a man gets his wish of invisibility. He gleefully runs off, [[TooDumbToLive right into the path of a speeding semi truck]].

* In an ''[[Series/TheXFiles 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]].
* In season 1, episode 9 of ''Series/{{Ozark}}'', real estate agent Sam Dermody is arguing with his overbearing mother Eugenia about the placement of an open house sign. While standing on the road, a truck speeds past, [[spoiler: hitting and killing her.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmYrWXhFf4c "You are not gonna believe what almost just happened!"]]]]

[[https://youtu.be/tmYrWXhFf4c A compilation of this trope for you all to enjoy]]

* Happens to [[spoiler:Diana]] in ''Film/{{Knowing}}''. [[spoiler:She dies by an oncoming truck coming from her left while driving a stolen SUV to chase after some guys who were "kidnapping" the kids. She ends up dying via broken neck from the collision at exactly 12 midnight.]]

** Happens again in ''Film/TheFinalDestination'' in a scene that's probably a ShoutOut to the first. Two characters leave a hospital, having just witnessed the elaborate and spectacularly unlikely death of the latest victim, and are in quiet conversation when one of them gets [[DeathByIrony hit by an ambulance]].

%%* Happens to [[spoiler:Diana]] in ''Film/{{Knowing}}''. [[spoiler:She doesn't get better.]] (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', a gangster is splattered by the truck. Then again, he was sentenced to death via Light's Death Note...

* ''Film/StreetRacer'' (a film by Creator/TheAsylum) has a rather TooDumbToLive example near the end. After the hero wins the climactic race, [[spoiler:his parole officer]] (who bet against him) runs across the race course to attack him. He's instead mowed down by the next pair of racers.

Can invoke DiabolusExMachina if done particularly suddenly. 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.

%%* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' once tried to teach Odie how to do this back in 1987. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* In ''LightNovel/MushokuTensei'', the protagonist is an otaku and hikkikomori who's wasted pretty much his whole life inside. He sees a couple arguing in the street, unaware that they are about to be hit by a truck, and shoves/pulls them out of the way at the cost of his own life. Fortunately, his act of heroism is repaid when he is reborn in another world full of magic and adventure where he resolves not to waste his life a second time. (And for some reason keeps his memories and adult mentality from his previous life despite being in a child's body.) Given how popular it was at the time, this is likely the source of trucks as one of the more popular choices to ReincarnateInAnotherWorld by in late 10s novels.

** Thought to have happened in another episode where the body of a young boy is found under the front of a taxi, but it's later discovered that the boy died before the taxi hit him. Unfortunately, this isn't determined until after an angry mob beats the taxi driver to death.