Re: 41% of crashes occur on Corners
OK, I want to go to the store across the street.
The safety boffins say I should cross at the corner.
At the corner, the drivers have to look in three directions, and a few
might even have checked the mirror.
The crosser (me) has to look in several directions, too,
Had I crossed in the middle of the block, I would have had to look in
two directions. The driver, basically, in one direction.
But it's safer to cross at the corner. It must be. "They" say so and
you know that "they" are never wrong.
At a presentation, I presented a case in which the car being passed,
driving at a speed below the posted limit, was the real speeder, but
the passer, driving above the posted limit, was not really speeding.
The police in the audience were smiling and nodding their heads in
agreement.
RTP (Retired Safety Professional)
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