It's hard to see how that could happen at that junction unless the driver wasn't looking.
No point in speculating, even on something as simple as whether a driver was looking or not. There are lots of ways in which this could have happened, we simply don't know.
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It's hard to see how that could happen at that junction unless the driver wasn't looking.