Clark W. Griswold
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If someone hits someone else it is not an accident and never was an accident it was intentional. Choosing not to see someone and pay attention as a road user is on that particular road user not on the victim. Say you are on your cellphone or tuning the radio or whatever that is intentional you made the decision to do that and not pay attention to the road and other road users.
An accident is a tough thing to happen because we may not want to think in our head we did that but we did and we made a choice whether consciously or sub-consciously to not pay attention and allow something to happen usually bad.
I can understand some road users do not use lights including many cars which can make them harder to see but still it is on you to keep a look at out for them and drive or ride carefully.