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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is ridiculous.

Of course it is best practice to be a responsible pedestrian, be aware of the traffic around you, and cross streets carefully.

Best practice for crossing this particular intersection as a pedestrian would be to approach the intersection, look down Irving to see if anyone is coming, look down Hiatt to see if anyone is coming, and then proceed when you have noted no cars coming. The OP started to cross the street when the car was NOT AT THE INTERSECTION. She entered the intersection at the crosswalk, and since it sounds like a number of you have not actually been there, I will say as someone who lives in the area that both crosswalks are highly visible from Hiatt. It's slightly more difficult for cars on Irving, but someone coming up Hiatt who was paying attention would have been able to clearly visualize a pedestrian in either of the crosswalks. Some of you seem to think that it is not reasonable for a pedestrian to expect a car that is ~100 feet away to stop at a stop sign when there is a pedestrian in the crosswalk.

[b]I wonder at the number of posters who spend their time chastising OP for not paying close enough attention while seemingly absolving the driver, who broke the law by running the stop sign in the first place, of any responsibility for the situation. [/b]

Are you seriously saying that if you were in OP's situation, you would have done something differently?[/quote]

I think it's mix of 3 things.

1. Might makes right (cars are bigger, so pedestrians have to be more careful than drivers)
2. The just world hypothesis (if you got hit, you must have done something wrong; I don't do that wrong thing so I won't get hit)
3. Windshield perspective (I primarily see the road from behind the windshield of my car and rarely, if ever, walk anywhere)[/quote]

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