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+ Elevator Pitch:

A humanoid entity with precognitive abilities that, during the time it interacts with you, prevents you from causing a would-be accident/minimizes the severity of an accident had you simply continued driving. Able to instantly manifests at any major international highway. Would be rather difficult to completely contain, and might not even be possible to contain at all. Originally thought to be the cause of major road accidents, which had the Foundation scrambling to contain it ASAP.

Its methods of pre-emptively stopping accidents (could) include:

1. Sudden manifestation x metres in front of a target vehicle, causing the driver to slam the brakes.
2. Manifestation close to future accident site and then running across the road, stopping all incoming traffic.
3. Sudden manifestation inside target vehicle, possibly disguised as a loved one in order to not cause too much panic, causing the driver to slam the brakes.

I also thought of some rules/limitations for this entity:

1. The entity is unable to interact with objects physically (e.g. cannot stop a car by hand or slam the brakes by itself.)
2. The entity cannot create copies of itself and/or simultaneously be at two or more locations at the same time. However, it is free to manifest/de-manifest at any given time.

Things I'm still not sure about:

1. Whether or not to make it sentient (being able to interact with people outside of its main gig, being able to respond to questions in an interview.)
2. How it could be contained (I feel like using a Scranton Reality Anchor is a bit too far fetched)

+ Central Narrative:

The Foundation began to address the possibility of a new SCP after noticing several police reports, dashcam sightings and internet posts regarding an entity dubbed the "Highway Man". After a bit of research, said entity was then identified to manifests during major road accident sites all around the world. This prompted the Foundation to scramble a containment team in order to contain it, and after a bit, had it successfully contained.

After a thorough combing of international video surveillance databases, the Foundation came to realise that this entity was present within 30% percent (figure to be debated) of all road accident recordings, and further analysis revealed that it alone saved the lives of over 400 thousand (also to be debated) individuals.

+ Addendum:

Apologies for being indecisive with some of the figures. Trying to make this entity have a noticable positive impact upon humanity without it being too extravagant.