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You telling people not to bother looking both ways or paying attention to cars approaching an intersection in traffic isn’t helping reduce that number.[/b]

Of course we should make changes to bad roadways, but that won’t prevent deaths caused by negligence by pedestrians and drivers.

My aunt killed a child who ran across a road.  She was so traumatized that she still doesn’t drive 40 years later.  The police investigation revealed she did nothing wrong. He just darted across the road in front of her, popped out from behind woods so she couldn’t see him and slow down.  She had no chance of avoiding him.  Tragic, but not her fault.  She still has to live with the memory.

It is impossible to reduce the number to zero.  We can improve it so we should embrace road AND vigilance training.[/quote]

There's a meaningful difference between "Telling people to look both ways doesn't save lives" and "Hey, people! Don't bother to look both ways!"

If your aunt had been driving more slowly, she would have had more of a chance to the child and stop. [b]People don't "pop out" of nowhere[/b] - but the faster you're driving, the more your peripheral vision narrows, and the more it seems as though they do. That's not her fault, it's the fault of the highway engineers who, for the last 80 years, have prioritized driving fast over human life. If the roads aren't safe for children, the roads aren't safe.[/quote]

Um yes they do, all the time. [/quote]

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