Joseph Meyer on Nostr: Life Coaching by Joe If you are walking, jogging, or running along a street with no ...
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If you are walking, jogging, or running along a street with no sidewalk, or you don’t use the sidewalk, you (and maybe your dog) should be on the side facing traffic. This is the left side of the road in the United States and the right side in the United Kingdom and some other places. Why? Because that way you can see vehicles approaching you on that side of the street and jump out of the way if someone on a mobile phone or adjusting their radio is about to run you over after drifting your way! Police officers sometimes stop, say this to pedestrians, and tell them to move to the other side of the street. Yet, I see people nearly every day walking on the wrong side. I know of at least three people who have been run over from behind and killed while walking on the side of the road that matches the vehicle traffic flow.
Note: This rule does not apply to bicycles. Why? Because drivers pulling up to stop signs typically look left for oncoming vehicles before turning right in the U.S. (or look right before turning left in the U.K.) and hit rapidly moving bicycles coming from the other direction that were not in their field of vision when they pulled up to the intersection. I can’t really blame parents who want their children to ride their bikes to school on the side of the road where they should only be if walking, so they can see cars coming toward them. But if they do so the onus is on them to watch out for vehicles turning onto the street they are using without expecting a bike to come from the wrong direction.
#Pedestrians #Safety #Walking #Jogging #Running #Traffic #Bicycles #Bikes #Dogs
If you are walking, jogging, or running along a street with no sidewalk, or you don’t use the sidewalk, you (and maybe your dog) should be on the side facing traffic. This is the left side of the road in the United States and the right side in the United Kingdom and some other places. Why? Because that way you can see vehicles approaching you on that side of the street and jump out of the way if someone on a mobile phone or adjusting their radio is about to run you over after drifting your way! Police officers sometimes stop, say this to pedestrians, and tell them to move to the other side of the street. Yet, I see people nearly every day walking on the wrong side. I know of at least three people who have been run over from behind and killed while walking on the side of the road that matches the vehicle traffic flow.
Note: This rule does not apply to bicycles. Why? Because drivers pulling up to stop signs typically look left for oncoming vehicles before turning right in the U.S. (or look right before turning left in the U.K.) and hit rapidly moving bicycles coming from the other direction that were not in their field of vision when they pulled up to the intersection. I can’t really blame parents who want their children to ride their bikes to school on the side of the road where they should only be if walking, so they can see cars coming toward them. But if they do so the onus is on them to watch out for vehicles turning onto the street they are using without expecting a bike to come from the wrong direction.
#Pedestrians #Safety #Walking #Jogging #Running #Traffic #Bicycles #Bikes #Dogs