What Was She Thinking?
Sixty-some years ago two post-war, baby-boom parents began teaching their son about looking both ways before crossing a road, and then proceeding only if it was safe. Since they did not live in a city...
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DownTheAvenue wrote:You DID read the part where the pedestrian WASN'T in the crosswalk yet...Right?SpeakEasy wrote:
A dozen years or so ago some (possibly) well-meaning legislator decided that pedestrians on a crosswalk should have the right-of-way over oncoming traffic, and he or she persuaded a majority of lawmakers to go along with this.
As I got near one of the many crosswalks in the city my eyes did pick up a pedestrian on the left, approaching the crosswalk. I was close enough to the crosswalk that I decided that it would be unsafe to try to stop.
You knew you were supposed to stop, you saw a pedestrian. You choose to keep on driving through the crosswalk. You were wrong.
For the life of me, why would it have been "unsafe" to try to stop?
