A woman helping a driver whose car hit a pedestrian screamed and fainted when she realised the victim was her husband, an Adelaide court has been told.
Anmoila Talput said she had been more focused on helping the driver before seeing her fatally injured husband on the road outside their Morphett Vale home.
"I could not breathe and fainted," she said in her victim impact statement read to the South Australian District Court on Monday.
"I felt numb and I felt nothing. I forgot about my kids. They could hear me screaming."
Joshua Benjamin Sumsion, 22, has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Shahid Talpur, 39, in June 2011.
Julie Lake, for the crown, said Sumsion failed to keep a proper lookout and was not wearing his glasses, a condition of his licence.
Mr Talput, an information technology worker with three young daughters, was dropped off by a workmate on the opposite side of the road to his home in peak hour when it was dark.
He waited in the centre of the road for oncoming traffic and was mid-stride when he was struck by Sumsion's car.
The impact threw him into the traffic where he was struck by at least two other cars.
Ms Talput said she thought she was having a nightmare and told emergency workers to take her husband to hospital "because miracles happen".
His death had had a catastrophic effect leading to the family moving to Victoria, where she needed her mother's help.
"Many times I would stand in the middle of the road hoping a car would hit me so I could experience the same thing," she said.
Victim impact statements were also read out on behalf of three of Mr Talput's sisters, who all had difficulty driving as pedestrians reminded them of their beloved brother.
One sister, living in the United States, said when she saw drivers avoiding deers on the road she wondered why Sumsion could not have avoided her brother.
Defence lawyer Stephen Apps said speed, alcohol or illicit drugs were not involved, but it had been "pure stupidity" for Sumsion to drive without his glasses.
He will be sentenced on March 4.
