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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in the crosswalk yesterday at Irving and Hiatt (halfway between 14th and 16th Streets) when a driver making a left turn onto Irving nearly ran me down.  I kept thinking the car would stop... and it did, about 6 inches from me.  I thought, "This is it" and my reaction was to let out a yell and and throw my arms up.  The driver rolled down her window.  I said, "You didn't see me?"  She replied by berating me with, "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"  Then she drove off down Irving.  If I did that, I would be apologizing profusely and asking if the pedestrian was okay.  Yeesh.  What in the hell?  She's going to kill someone one day.  I'm still a bit rattled.

It's just not safe for pedestrians out there.  What can be done?[/quote]

Never trust that a car will stop or they see you. If you think a car will stop wait till it does before you move in front of it. It’s nice you are in the crosswalk but if that car hits you ...[/quote]

It's "nice" that I was in the crosswalk?!?  I was following the rules...  already in the crosswalk before she came barreling up out of nowhere.

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You don't just have the right of way because you are in a crosswalk. It does not mean you don't have to be vigilant because you are in the crosswalk. [/quote]

:shock:   I do have the right of way in a crosswalk and I was vigilant.  When I started crossing she wasn't even close to the intersection.  And there's a stop sign on Hiatt.  It's a one way on Irving and nothing was coming from that direction.[/quote]

Of course OP had the right of way in a crosswalk.  Ignorant selfish drivers like the above make me sick.  I was walking my baby in the stroller in downtown Bethesda and this obnoxious woman in a minivan, stopped right in the crosswalk when the light changed to red.  She had plenty of room to move forward or backwards, but didn't, and said "she had the right to stop in a crosswalk.  I took a picture and took her license plate down and sent it via mail to the police (marked non-urgent traffic violation.)  Not sure what happened, but it made me feel better because she was so obnoxious.[/quote]you miss the point. Legally, you do have the right of way. Pedestrians have to more defensive, because you’re not in car. You have to be more vigilant so you don’t die[/quote]

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