You drive to your conditions, there's no excuse. If you are driving so fast at night that your lights don't illuminate enough ahead to perform a safety stop then you are driving too fast.
It's astounding that anyone defends this person for the manslaughter, and blames the women he harmed, and the completely lack of empathy... "deadly drunk", one of them is now, because of the author.
Yeah no-one drives on a highway to conditions where there might be a human laying on the road waiting to be killed. Even self driving cars killed people in better conditions (person was walking on highway not laying there).
There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.