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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee
Last evening I had a meeting that I had to attend. I backed out of my driveway, stopped, looked both ways behind me, straightened the car to drive and almost ran over a woman dressed from head to toe in black, even wearing a black hood of some sort. Thankfully she jumped onto the grass, which is when I finally saw her. I was in the wrong ................
BUT ........... please, if you are going to walk in the dark of the morning, or the dark of the night, please please please wear reflector vests or tape reflector strips to your clothing.
You are living in a retirement community and although we do not like to admit it, our eyes are no longer as good as they once were.
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I don't think this almost-collision has anything to do with this being "a retirement community" nor with most "eyes not as good as they once were".
Pedestrians are not to be walking in front of moving vehicles, period.
I've never seen so many people as I see here, who have no respect or fear of moving vehicles coming toward them, and they just walk mindlessly in front or behind a moving vehicle without even looking! And some walk in front of/behind a moving vehicle mindFULLy, as if to prove "I'm right, and you're wrong". But who wants to be right in a trauma unit and rehab hospital for months/years, or in a cemetery!!
It's not a matter of who's right or who's wrong.
It's a matter of pedestrians, too, taking responsibility for their own safety, by using their brain that should tell them that white tail lights lit up on the vehicle means the car is in reverse and about to back up, and they might not see you in the daylight OR dark!
The pedestrian also has to be responsible for their safety by wearing white or light colored/clothing and reflective vests, striping and/or lights/flashlight. Without it you are a menace.