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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Pedestrians like and need to save time just as much as drivers do

2. Just as drivers speed, and do other infractions, peds will often cross outside a crosswalk

3. Quite often crosswalks are spaced too far apart, and not located at natural crossing points, like bus stops.

4. In many places cars hardly slow down at crosswalks anyway, so its not much safer crossing there

5.  Sometimes crosswalks are not located at the spot with the best visibility

6. By crossing midblock (crosswalk or not) peds can avoid the dangers from turning cars.  Lots of collisions involving peds happen IN crosswalks, from turning cars

7. IME the worst ped behavior is by people going to or from parked cars - who typically want the absolute shortest path to their car door, even if it involves walking in the street, when there is a sidewalk present.  [/quote]

Well, this is all very valid and beautiful but the problem is, in case of car - pedestrian collision, pedestrian never wins. Not only that but even low speed impact can end up horribly for a person that is not protected by the car.

So in reply to your points 1 to  7.. respectively.. this is the answer:

Just for the year 2015:
[b]In the broader DC Metro area, there were 60 pedestrian fatalities in 2015,[/b] 
Guess how many drivers of those cars who collided with those pedestrians died in those accidents?[/quote]

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