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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drivers didn't stop before.  You say "of course" but they didn't.

I head into the crosswalk because[b] people don't stop when they see you waiting, even if they are required to,[/b] and because where I am going is as important as where you're going, and me waiting for several minutes so that you don't have to wait for a several seconds while I cross is ridiculous. [/quote]

but here is where you are wrong. Drivers are only required to stop for pedestrians who are physically in the crosswalk. They are not required to stop just because someone is waiting to cross. Stopping to let someone cross can be dangerous if it is on a busy road. It is up to the pedestrian to wait until there is a break in traffic to cross.[/quote]

Yeah we know you don’t want to stop. That’s why we step off the curb, due to selfish drivers like you. [/quote]

can you not understand that sometimes stopping is dangerous for both the driver and the pedestrian?  I  drive down rt 50 and there are crosswalks without signals. I can't imagine coming to a complete stop on RT 50 to let someone cross. It's an accident waiting to happen.

There was also a girl who was killed near where I grew up because a nice guy did stop on a road with 2 lanes of traffic going in one direction. The driver in the second lane never saw the girl as she came out from behind the first car, she was hit and killed.

Maybe pedestrians should be a little more patient when crossing the street.[/quote]

Which is why the law in DC is that if someone is stopped in one lane, you stop in the other lane ("Whenever a vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk at an unsignalized intersection, a vehicle approaching the crosswalk in an adjacent lane or from behind the stopped vehicle shall stop and give the right-of-way to ensure the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists before passing the stopped vehicle"). This is also just common sense.

The driver in your story could chose to behave recklessly and killed a child. He belongs in jail not having you make excuses for him.[/quote]

I wasn't making excuses. just pointing out that cars stopping randomly because god forbid the "selfish" drivers don't stop for every person they see waiting to cross a road.

but hey keep being impatient and playing frogger. [/quote]

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