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[quote=Anonymous]The left hand turn thing is a major problem and probably the highest risk.  I've almost been hit three times by someone making a left turn while I'm in the crosswalk.  (Twice, the person actually zoomed around a car that was stopped!). One time it got close enough that it hit my wide leg pants!  People making a left turn are looking for the oncoming traffic, not the pedestrian cross-walk.  I think this needs to be made a MAJOR focus of driver's ed programs, the driver's test, etc.  I bet some bright person could make a good driver's simulation in which they pepper pedestrians throughout -- if you miss one pedestrian in the simulation, you fail the driver's test.  And it should be like a vision test, where you have to re-take it every few years.  That should help teach people that this is one of the most important rules of the road.  Sadly, most people great up in suburban areas where there were not a lot of pedestrians, and so they are just not used to driving in areas where there are pedestrians.  As we become more and more urbanized (including the "suburbs" where a lot of these car-pedestrian accidents happen now), it's more and more important.[/quote]

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