This is what I keep telling my kids when I teach them how to cross a street. Even if a car has a stop sign and it is your turn to cross, the fact you had right of way will not make the doctor being able to magically heal you. Make sure the car sees you and is actually stopping before crossing.
In my town that death wish mindset has been passed on to their children. Children constantly jaywalking and daring you to hit them so they can get paid.
A friend of ours would stride into the street without pausing (regardless of the traffic), because she has right of way and the cars don't. She was in her 30s at the time. I tried to tell her it didn't matter who was right, what matters is who survives. Thankfully she slowed down a bit because we have kids and we're trying to teach them to be cautious.
Just had this experience recently. Hit the crosswalk button and my light turned green to walk. I always watch traffic that is coming into the crosswalk as I walk. I seen one suv that was going pretty fast to be able to stop at the red light so I just stopped walking. They slammed on their brakes when they either saw me or that they were driving into a red light. The suv stopped a few feet past the end of the crosswalk and sitting in the driver seat was an old women, probably 90 yrs old
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u/draftstone 11h ago
This is what I keep telling my kids when I teach them how to cross a street. Even if a car has a stop sign and it is your turn to cross, the fact you had right of way will not make the doctor being able to magically heal you. Make sure the car sees you and is actually stopping before crossing.