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Old 11-14-2023, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Cliff Fr View Post
Yesterday my wife was leaving the Petco store at Spanish Springs. She looking both ways when leaving. There was a woman in a black suv stopped at the crosswalk. After she started walking across the black suv started driving toward her and made no attempt to slow down, she had to increase her pace to avoid being run over. The driver continued on looking straight ahead without slowing down.
It was at the Spanish Springs at the Publix or Winn Dixie a few years back where a couple walking in the cross walk from the store to their car in the parking lot were both killed. Actually they were in the "right", Florida law does require drivers to stop for people in the cross walk rather they are " right or wrong". So sad that being in the "right" can end with you being "dead right".

Courtesy, attention to driving over texting and talking, not being constantly driven to "show them" (those who offend you) whose the boss of the situation, would all help reduce the needless pain, suffering, and death... and it would "cost" us such a tiny tiny bit of our own egos !