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A pedestrian was knocked down by a passing car

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Bassim

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I am wondering if my sentence is grammatically correct.

A pedestrian was knocked down by a passing car, and when he rose to his feet, he was hit again by a pizza delivery driver on a motorcycle.
 
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It's good gramatically. I'm not sure about using driver with motorcycle, though. To say pizza delivery rider doesn't sound natural, so why not pizza delivery guy/person/man on a motorcycle?
 
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Roman55 said:
It's good gramatically. I'm not sure about using driver with motorcycle, though. To say pizza delivery rider doesn't sound natural, so why not pizza delivery guy/person/man on a motorcycle?
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Or "pizza delivery girl/person/woman", of course. ;-)
 
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I hope the pedestrian is OK now.
It's a horrible accident!
 
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How about got to instead of rose?
 
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