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The closest red light to our home has four crosswalks.
However, I have taught my children to avoid them.
Please, I beg them, cross only a block away, where there is no crosswalk.
First question for your table - can you guess why?
Routinely - meaning daily - I see cars running this red light.
Or turning there (on green) with pedestrians in the crosswalk.
It happened to me - once I was crossing with two children and a turning car very nearly hit us.
Another time I chose not to use the crosswalk and then saw a car run the red at the exact moment that I would have been there.
Until now, I thought this was perhaps a local Baltimore phenomenon.
It turns out that more people are running red lights (causing more fatalities) everywhere.
Every day, on average, two or more people in the USA are killed by someone running a red light.
My state is at the exact national average (2.4 annual red-light-running deaths per 1M population). What would you guess is your state's ranking? Do you feel like it's getting better or worse where you live? Here's the data.
Even scarier, a new AAA survey found that 16 percent of teenagers and six percent of drivers overall say that it is not particularly dangerous to run a red light.
The AAA researchers cannot explain this increase in red-light-running and its increase in fatalities.
I personally suspect it may be rooted in more and more people - especially young people - being socialized to be impatient.
What do you think?
And what's the solution?
Shabbat Shalom
(PS - Clicking on the above image will take you to one suggested solution)
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The closest red light to our home has four crosswalks.However, I have taught my children to avoid them.
Please, I beg them, cross only a block away, where there is no crosswalk.
First question for your table - can you guess why?
Routinely - meaning daily - I see cars running this red light.
Or turning there (on green) with pedestrians in the crosswalk.
It happened to me - once I was crossing with two children and a turning car very nearly hit us.
Another time I chose not to use the crosswalk and then saw a car run the red at the exact moment that I would have been there.
Until now, I thought this was perhaps a local Baltimore phenomenon.
It turns out that more people are running red lights (causing more fatalities) everywhere.
Every day, on average, two or more people in the USA are killed by someone running a red light.
My state is at the exact national average (2.4 annual red-light-running deaths per 1M population). What would you guess is your state's ranking? Do you feel like it's getting better or worse where you live? Here's the data.
Even scarier, a new AAA survey found that 16 percent of teenagers and six percent of drivers overall say that it is not particularly dangerous to run a red light.
The AAA researchers cannot explain this increase in red-light-running and its increase in fatalities.
I personally suspect it may be rooted in more and more people - especially young people - being socialized to be impatient.
What do you think?
And what's the solution?
Shabbat Shalom
(PS - Clicking on the above image will take you to one suggested solution)
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