Yawn
Everyone here in Borneo is obliged to don a Hi-viz when going "airside". We have Hi-viz vests stowed in the aircraft for crew use when necessary. They do seem a bit like overkill, but its all to do with the employer's duty of care. Duty of care? What's that then? Well, we're civilians you see, and thus a bunch of touchy-feely wimps.
BZN 197something. I forget; but the miners were on strike and the 'three day week' was in operation - for everyone except we military chaps. Group HQ decreed that to save electricity, the floodlights would be turned off. A rigger walks out from LSS stores and heads out across the pan to attend to a sick VC10 - just as a crew bus turns the corner and races across the pan...
The driver never saw anything, just heard the thud.
Unfortunately the rigger wasn't killed outright. He merely suffered permanent brain damage, converting him into a vegetable. So, his life insurance didn't pay out and his family was reduced to penury. The RAF in its boundless generosity discharged him on medical grounds and subsequently ignored him.
As they always do.
"The driver never saw anything"?? Well we didn't have Hi-Viz vests in those days. It was the rigger's own fault. Apparently, with all the pan floodlights off he should have been paying proper attention, seen the bus coming and jumped out of the way.
Group HQ never rescinded the order to turn off the floodlights, either.