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Ice, your understanding of the rules of the road regarding pedestrians and jaywalking pretty much mirrors my own.

As to August's and Yahoshua's light theory, I have no idea. Physics was never my strongsuit and most of the little bit of stuff I've encountered before on light and optics was way over my head.

My alternative theory, though I'll never know whether its correct or not, was that she was momentarily distracted by one of the many things that can distract a motorist: the buttons on the radio, a ringing cell phone (or one she may have been talking on), something else she may have been reaching for, or perhaps she was even applying lipstick in her rearview mirror. Or maybe none of the above, maybe I was in her blindspot and she had simply not caught the motion of me walking across the street. Any are plausible, maybe some more than others.

I'm as clueless as to how she didn't see me as I am to how I could not have seen or heard her. Anyway, so it goes. She is probably asking herself the same questions.