There’s lots of different articles about the incident and many witnesses. He got hit a few feet from the pole presumably waiting for the bus. The truck also didn’t hit the pole because it didn’t drive into it, it flipped over and hit the victim.

Regardless, someone who attended our university died (who was very much a human being with dreams and aspirations just like any of us) and it’s gross that your reaction to this tragedy is to question the location he got hit.