Enlarge / A frame from Brian Kaufman’s video shows the spot where Elaine Herzberg was killed. (credit: Brian Kaufman)

On Sunday night, an Uber self-driving car killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. A key argument in Uber’s defense has been that the road was so dark that even an attentive driver would not have spotted Herzberg in the seconds before the crash.

Herzberg “came from the shadows right into the roadway,” Tempe police chief Sylvia Moir told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday. “The driver said it was like a flash.”

A frame from the Uber dashcam video shows the exact same spot on the road as the image at the top of this article. At the far right of the frame, you can faintly see the same white sign that’s clearly visible in the other video.

When police released footage from the Uber vehicle’s onboard camera on Wednesday, it seemed to somewhat support this view. In the video, Herzberg’s feet become visible only about 1.4 seconds before the final frame of the video. Prior to that point, she appears shrouded in shadow.