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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents need to remind their kids that they should not wear headphones while walking. It's a huge safety hazard. They also shouldn't walk while looking down at their phones. [/quote]

This was a kid walking in a crosswalk.  The car closest to the curb stopped to let her pass, and the car in the left lane did not slow down to see if anyone was coming and hit a kid.

It's not the kid's fault for jumping into traffic.  It's not the kid's fault for wearing headphones.  It's not parents' faults for not training their kids.

THIS WAS A TERRIBLE DRIVER DRIVING TERRIBLY AND HITTING A CHILD WHO HAD THE RIGHT OF WAY.  Stop trying to make it anything else.  You people are deeply disgusting. [/quote]

Yup, people really are brainwashed on this topic. I have a family member who was hit by a car while in a crosswalk recently—a crosswalk where multiple others walkers/cyclists have been hit and seriously injured (not in DC)—and even they were making excuses for the driver and why it’s just really hard for drivers to drive more slowly/carefully on this busy road.[/quote]
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Because obviously it is hard or so many people wouldn’t have been hit! [/b]I don’t understand why it is so important for people to not take 15 seconds and see if a car is coming before crossing the street even if it is your right. It is your right to walk through a dangerous neighborhood at night but if you know there is a danger to your life if you do, why would you do it? [/quote]

This is the brainwashing I’m talking about. Good lord. Why is it so important for people to speed at 45 miles an hour on a road they drive every day and KNOW has a crosswalk rather than slow down as they are approaching the crosswalk? The person I know who was hit did look before crossing; he judged the distance from the approaching car as sufficient to cross. But the driver was driving into the sun and assumed she could just speed along and not worry that someone was in the crosswalk. Had she been driving more slowly approaching the crosswalk, she would have had time to see him sooner and stop before hitting him.

And the comparison to crime is really something. Like, yes, people should be able to walk through “dangerous” neighborhoods at night. The vast majority of people who live in “dangerous” neighborhoods are not criminals. They should be allowed to live their lives. The person I know who got hit by a car lives near the dangerous crosswalk; he knows it’s dangerous, but does that mean he shouldn’t be able to use it? Why do we accept drivers breaking the law by disregarding the crosswalk?[/quote]

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