History Main / TheJaywalkingDead

Subtrope of CarFu. For other ways to kill zombies, see BurnTheUndead, ShockAndAwe, and the traditional method of RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain.

* This happens several times in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', but it's always unintentional and it always severely damages the vehicle.

* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': A non-zombie version: when General Warfield's battlecruiser is shot down above Char, it plows into a single Hydralisk too dumb to get out of the way.

* ''VideoGame/SevenDaysToDie'': Can be done with the vehicles (even with a bicycle), but not for the damage dealt. Often it is to stun the zombie with a reliable knockdown, before jumping out and either killing it as it's getting back up, or running into a nearby building point-of-interest (i.e. your destination and that is why you were driving in the first place).
* ''VideoGame/TheLastStand: Union City'' opens with one of these crashing the PlayerCharacter's car. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Turns out humans are heavy, dead or alive.]]

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** Averted. While the zombies appear standing right on the road during a day/night level preview, there's no cars around to run them over.
** Inverted when Dr. Zomboss (in his Zombot, naturally) throws ''a winnebago'' onto 6 of your plants, instantly flattening them.

* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', you can kill zombies by running them over with a car. They're so stupid that they make no real effort to get out of the way. In fact, in the first game in the series, vehicular manslaughter is an effective way to rack up the 56,000 kills needed to unlock the Real Mega Buster {{BFG}}.

* In the Jonathan Maberry novel ''Fall of Night'', the patrons and staff of a Starbucks become zombies. They wander onto a highway in the middle of the worst storm of the century. The resulting pileup becomes a significant focus of the outbreak.

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Of course, it's not their fault they end up being easy targets for cars, both on and off the road. After all, they're dead; many of them don't understand the concept of traffic regulations, to say nothing about them probably being visually impaired. If they were half as smart as the zombies from ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'', though, they'd probably look both ways before crossing the road, let alone shambling out in the open at all. If even then they go walking on the roads, well, they probably deserve a special {{Website/Darwin Award|s}} if they get hit.

* The protagonists of ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}'' run over a zombie while fleeing Menard's house after finding Paola dead and being devoured by zombies, and they end up crashing the car just as quickly.
* In ''Film/{{Zombi 3D}}'', some zombie birds die by ramming blindly into an incoming bus.

* ''VideoGame/ZombiesVsTheAmbulance'': Running over zombies with your ambulance is literally one of the two main goals; the other is to locate and pick up survivors a la ''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi''. If you're not moving fast enough, though, the zombies can climb on and start wrecking your vehicle instead.

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** In the [[Film/DawnOfTheDead2004 remake]], the survivors' heavily outfitted shuttle buses are surprisingly less effective.

** Averted. While the zombies appear standing right on the road during a level preview, there's no cars around to run them over.