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A pedestrian near-fatality here is indicative of another problem: distracted walking. How many times have you seen pedestrians strolling across a street with their eyes, and minds, focused on a cellphone, talking or texting? The very unfortunate incident here involved a person simply walking into the side of a turning truck, and falling under the rear wheels.

You've actually put your finger on how we've acheived such amazing an amazing improvement in pedestrian fatalities. As a society, we've pretty much shifted the blame from drivers onto pedestrians. Your scenario of the pedestrian being run down by a left-turning truck illustrates this.

If a left-turning truck ran down a pedestrian, he was by definition travelling too fast. Whether or not the pedestrian was able to obey the law of GTFOOMY is of secondary importance.

Regardless of the benefits of some individual speed camera at some individual intersection, cultivating a culture of driver care is valuable in and of itself. Higher fines, or ubiquitous fines is one way of doing that.

by oboe on Mar 30, 2012 9:30 am • link • report

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