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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never trust a car to stop even if you are in the crosswalk and you have the light. I am shocked at all the pedestrians that don't bother looking or keep walking even when they see car coming just trusting that the driver will stop.[/quote]

Okay. SO what happens if a car just plows through the crosswalk. There is only so much vigilance a pedestrian can demonstrate. If you have the light or you are in the crosswalk, looking can only do so much if someone drives through it.

For the most part, all looking is going to accomplish is watching your death come at you.

Fear response (freezing) and the fact that people are slower than cars means that a pedestrian will always be at a disadvantage.

When incidents like the OP describes happen, the only way the pedestrian survives is if the car stops! All the vigilance in the world won't save her.
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If the OP was being vigilant how did she not see a car coming.... looking at her phone ... probably.

You can't just stand at a crosswalk texting then all of a sudden walk into the crosswalk ... like drivers can read your mind. [/quote]

This is OP.  I wasn't looking at my phone.  I'm an old Gen X person and my phone is not that important to me.  When I started crossing Irving was clear and the driver on Hiatt street was at least halfway down the block.  [b]She blew through the stop sign[/b] to make the left when she almost hit me. [/quote]

You have said this at least twice. I feel like you are fighting a losing battle. For some reason I cannot comprehend, people want to believe the fact that you were walking legally and carefully is moot and you are still responsible for bad, inattentive, and dangerous drivers.

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What people are disagreeing with is that OP does need to "calm down"... she was walking... a car did not hit her but she thought it might... It stopped. She was clearly walking very slowly across a very small intersection and she needs to be more vigilant in the city. [/quote]

You talk about the fact that she was walking slowly as if somehow it's an excuse for the driver to run the stop sign, and either not watch where she's going, or intentionally scare someone.

There are plenty of people who have disabilities that impact their walking speed.  A subset of them also have disabilities that prevent driving.  They still deserve to be able to cross a street, and crossing a street when you have the right of way at a stop sign, with the nearest car far up the block, or out of sight, should be a safe strategy.   If it wasn't, then people would be stuck in their houses forever.  
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