amyl - I'm not trying to justify what happened, but a pedestrian should not expect the traffic to automatically slow down just because they've stepped out into the road. That sort of attitude is certainly what causes a lot of accidents.

There are woefully too few pedestrian crossings in Doha, but people crossing roads wherever they feel like it is incredible dangerous. To say that there is "no possible explanation as to why the person behind the wheel of the vehicle did not slow down" is a bit naive.