[Nfbf-l] Police Crackdown On Pedestrian Safety

[Mark]

I hope we can start doing this in more areas.  Thank you for the article.
Mark Tardif
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>
> This is great for South Daytona. We need to do something like this in the 
> Orlando area. We have three of the top 10 worst intersections for 
> pedestrians right here in the Orlando area.
> Police Crackdown On Pedestrian Safety
> Posted: 12:49 pm EST December 3, 2009Updated: 6:28 pm EST December 3, 2009
>
> DAYTONA, Fla. -- South Daytona police are cracking down on pedestrian 
> safety. Police used volunteers to ticket drivers, who didn't give 
> pedestrians the right-of-way, on Ridgewood Avenue at Big Tree Road 
> Thursday.
>
> "$166 ticket! I'm so upset. I've got three points on my license," one 
> driver said. "It won't happen again, you best believe that."
>
> Drivers did not like the tickets being handed out by the dozens Thursday, 
> all for breaking the rules of cars versus crosswalks.
>
> The rules of the road say a pedestrian has to get to the curb before a 
> driver can cross the crosswalk.
>
> One-by-one officers stepped out into traffic to pull over each vehicle 
> that violated the rule, but Eyewitness News found most drivers didn't even 
> know they'd broken the law.
>
> "I didn't realize you have to wait until they cross to the other side," 
> ticketed driver Brianna Hulst said.
>
> "So you honestly didn't know you were doing anything wrong?" WFTV reporter 
> Steve Barrett asked.
>
> "I didn't, but now I know. Lesson learned," she replied.
>
> Excuses don't matter when you're blind like Frank Andrews. He was helping 
> in Thursday's sting as a pedestrian volunteer.
>
> "Drivers don't respect pedestrians basically," said Andrews. "We've got to 
> make drivers more aware of pedestrian safety and respecting the law."
>
> With three pedestrian deaths in the last two years, South Daytona is far 
> behind Orange County where a record year has seen an average of one 
> pedestrian death per week.
>
> Tuesday in St. Cloud, a 33-year-old woman was rundown by a semi truck at a 
> marked crosswalk.
>
> "We have a lot of children who cross here, we have elderly people, 
> vision-impaired people, hearing-impaired people," an officer said.
>
> However, there are plenty of rules pedestrians can break themselves and 
> cops are watching them and handing out fines for the walking violations 
> too.
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> Sherri Brun
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