Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:34     Subject: Re:"I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
When I was 9 month pregnant I was clipped by a car. I was in the crosswalk with a walk sign. The car ran a red light. I gave the police the make and model of the car and which parking garage it pulled into after hitting me. The cops didn't do anything because I was barely hurt and they didn't see it happen. After that I assume I am always on my own and that no car will ever stop. I will always pick being alive over being right.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:33     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Anonymous wrote:

These incidents make me FURIOUS!
Thank goodness you’re safe, OP.


+1

A 14 yo GDS student was hit and killed by a car this past weekend while out jogging. You in your car don't have anywhere to be that can't wait a few extra seconds to avoid hurting or killing someone.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:32     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
NP, yes you had the right of way. I think the other poster’s point is that there’s no right of way in heaven. (Per a saying I once saw in another country.) This means don’t rely on others for your safety even if you do have the right of way. It could save your life.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:31     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
As someone who was recently hit by a car crossing the street, legally, I get you OP. Drivers need to slow down and pay attention to pedestrians, who btw have the right of way if they are crossing legally.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:31     Subject: Re:"I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Anonymous wrote:Did you take down the license plate number?



OP here. No, I was too rattled and after she yelled at me she continued down the street like a bat out of hell.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:30     Subject: Re:"I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
I saw a young woman (at the time I was, too!) get hit in a crosswalk in Courthouse/Arlington. Driver came down the hill by the Metro and right through the crosswalk. The pedestrian was knocked down but not seriously injured (thank goodness, still not sure how she escaped injury). The driver stayed at the scene but seemed confused by the entire event. It definitely made me more cautious about stepping in front of a car until they are stopped.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:29     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was in the crosswalk yesterday at Irving and Hiatt (halfway between 14th and 16th Streets) when a driver making a left turn onto Irving nearly ran me down. I kept thinking the car would stop... and it did, about 6 inches from me. I thought, "This is it" and my reaction was to let out a yell and and throw my arms up. The driver rolled down her window. I said, "You didn't see me?" She replied by berating me with, "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!" Then she drove off down Irving. If I did that, I would be apologizing profusely and asking if the pedestrian was okay. Yeesh. What in the hell? She's going to kill someone one day. I'm still a bit rattled.

It's just not safe for pedestrians out there. What can be done?


Never trust that a car will stop or they see you. If you think a car will stop wait till it does before you move in front of it. It’s nice you are in the crosswalk but if that car hits you ...



It's "nice" that I was in the crosswalk?!? I was following the rules... already in the crosswalk before she came barreling up out of nowhere.



You don't just have the right of way because you are in a crosswalk. It does not mean you don't have to be vigilant because you are in the crosswalk.



I do have the right of way in a crosswalk and I was vigilant. When I started crossing she wasn't even close to the intersection. And there's a stop sign on Hiatt. It's a one way on Irving and nothing was coming from that direction.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:28     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
One of the things that can be done is to get the DC government to change the traffic lights so that cars are allowed to turn when pedestrians aren't in the crosswalks.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:28     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Anonymous wrote:You don't just have the right of way because you are in a crosswalk.


Actually, you do.

Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:26     Subject: Re:"I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Did you take down the license plate number?
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:26     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was in the crosswalk yesterday at Irving and Hiatt (halfway between 14th and 16th Streets) when a driver making a left turn onto Irving nearly ran me down. I kept thinking the car would stop... and it did, about 6 inches from me. I thought, "This is it" and my reaction was to let out a yell and and throw my arms up. The driver rolled down her window. I said, "You didn't see me?" She replied by berating me with, "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!" Then she drove off down Irving. If I did that, I would be apologizing profusely and asking if the pedestrian was okay. Yeesh. What in the hell? She's going to kill someone one day. I'm still a bit rattled.

It's just not safe for pedestrians out there. What can be done?


Never trust that a car will stop or they see you. If you think a car will stop wait till it does before you move in front of it. It’s nice you are in the crosswalk but if that car hits you ...



It's "nice" that I was in the crosswalk?!? I was following the rules... already in the crosswalk before she came barreling up out of nowhere.



You don't just have the right of way because you are in a crosswalk. It does not mean you don't have to be vigilant because you are in the crosswalk.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:24     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"


These incidents make me FURIOUS!
Thank goodness you’re safe, OP.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:23     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was in the crosswalk yesterday at Irving and Hiatt (halfway between 14th and 16th Streets) when a driver making a left turn onto Irving nearly ran me down. I kept thinking the car would stop... and it did, about 6 inches from me. I thought, "This is it" and my reaction was to let out a yell and and throw my arms up. The driver rolled down her window. I said, "You didn't see me?" She replied by berating me with, "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!" Then she drove off down Irving. If I did that, I would be apologizing profusely and asking if the pedestrian was okay. Yeesh. What in the hell? She's going to kill someone one day. I'm still a bit rattled.

It's just not safe for pedestrians out there. What can be done?


Never trust that a car will stop or they see you. If you think a car will stop wait till it does before you move in front of it. It’s nice you are in the crosswalk but if that car hits you ...



It's "nice" that I was in the crosswalk?!? I was following the rules... already in the crosswalk before she came barreling up out of nowhere.

Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:20     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
Anonymous wrote:I was in the crosswalk yesterday at Irving and Hiatt (halfway between 14th and 16th Streets) when a driver making a left turn onto Irving nearly ran me down. I kept thinking the car would stop... and it did, about 6 inches from me. I thought, "This is it" and my reaction was to let out a yell and and throw my arms up. The driver rolled down her window. I said, "You didn't see me?" She replied by berating me with, "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!" Then she drove off down Irving. If I did that, I would be apologizing profusely and asking if the pedestrian was okay. Yeesh. What in the hell? She's going to kill someone one day. I'm still a bit rattled.

It's just not safe for pedestrians out there. What can be done?


Never trust that a car will stop or they see you. If you think a car will stop wait till it does before you move in front of it. It’s nice you are in the crosswalk but if that car hits you ...
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2019 13:06     Subject: "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!"
I was in the crosswalk yesterday at Irving and Hiatt (halfway between 14th and 16th Streets) when a driver making a left turn onto Irving nearly ran me down. I kept thinking the car would stop... and it did, about 6 inches from me. I thought, "This is it" and my reaction was to let out a yell and and throw my arms up. The driver rolled down her window. I said, "You didn't see me?" She replied by berating me with, "I didn't run you over, so you need to calm down!" Then she drove off down Irving. If I did that, I would be apologizing profusely and asking if the pedestrian was okay. Yeesh. What in the hell? She's going to kill someone one day. I'm still a bit rattled.

It's just not safe for pedestrians out there. What can be done?