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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The driver - the person driving the multi-thousand pound machine that killed another human - is at fault. But the driver behaves they way they do because our infrastructure and policy and legal choices mean that it's way easier to be an unsafe driver than a safe pedestrian.

And shame on all the apologists in this thread, who clearly identify more with the driver than with the child who was killed (or her family).[/quote]I disagree. We’re trying to keep future accidents from happening by telling pedestrians that just because you have the right of way, you have to be more vigilant so you don’t die.  I see people texting walking across the street. [/quote]

oh come on. it’s the drivers. nobody is safe with this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/lambda_calculus/status/1437913085486960645[/quote]If you think pedestrian accidents are only because of drivers, you’re living in a naive bubble. Too many distracted pedestrians.  Drivers and pedestrians need to stay vigilant.  Just because you get walk signal, doesn’t mean you stop looking at the traffic coming your way. [/quote]

just about every analysis of pedestrian death increases cites SUVs, speeding, and poor street design. [/quote]More pedestrians would live if they didn’t cross the second they get signal, and start staring at phones.  You have to make sure to keep looking so to be able to react incase someone blows through the light. [/quote]
Which, again, is not so much a failure of pedestrians but of those driving the cars who take every yellow and fresh red as a sign to barrel through, and who take stop signs as yield signs and yield signs as nothing at all. Heck, I’ve been in intersections before and had to jump because some distracted SUV driver (and it always seems to be a distracted SUV driver) hasn’t seen the red light or me in the crosswalk. [/quote]

I watch cars roll or blow through the stop sign next to my kid’s elementary school *every day*. they never stop unless there is someone literally in front of them in the crosswalk. Let’s not even get started about the cars and delivery vans that park in the no-parking zone at the corner and obstruct visibility. [/quote]

And yet, that has no bearing on this particular accident. [/quote]

This.

People are angry with the driver for things he did not do. [/quote]

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