Be careful walking in parking lots
 

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.

Walking behind parked car pulling out the real danger IMO.

Never assume a driver sees you unless you make eye contact...

and even then...... don't trust 100% !

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 !

if i read the title and the post correctly, leaving Petco and walking across the road in front of stores back into the parking lot?

or what am i missing?

I just wait for no cars or someone stops if there are cars. . too many idiot, stoopids and drunks out there these days

Ditto
 

Same EXACT thing happened to me at a mail center, only I was riding my bicycle. The older woman in the vehicle would have run me over had I not taken evasive maneuvers.

And that ladies and gents is the reason you should never park directly in front of our golf shops to check in. Other golfers have to walk between the parked carts to get to the parking lot. Each day I work I see numerous golfers ,who are difficult to see walking between two carts, have to stop to avoid getting hit by another cart/car.

I'm a native New Yorker, being so you expect to be runover, you never rely on another person's judgement.
Especially here whereas we get older are minds wander, the driver could be looking straight at you and their mind could be on a beach in France.

My experience, here, is that the parking lots are truly dangerous. People drive in them like they're on a highway. Other people walk down the center of the roadway never watching right and left or being aware there may be a car behind them. Also crossing from a store/restaurant is very dangerous. You have to have your head on a swivle. Backing out.....if you're hit by another car, you will be in the fault of it and not the other way around. However, I thought that once a car backing out is 3/4 of the way out that the other car should stop and let you proceed from your parking spot instead of swerving around you. Never, never, ever assume anything here.

NEVER walk in front of a moving car. Ever. Even if in a cross walk. You may have the right-of-way…but you’ll be dead right. I don’t even trust eye contact anymore. Just easier to walk behind them…

The posts in my SUV are so big, that if someone is walking up a lane doing the same speed as me, and I'm driving across the top..... I will lose them behind the posts. I was driving in front of a Publix, slowly, and a man literally stepped out in front of me at the top of a parking lane....... I slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting him, he glared at me...... I wasn't not paying attention, he was literally hidden. When I was a little kid I was taught not to step in front of moving vehicles, granted it would have been my fault, but the man assumed I would stop and if I didn't have good brakes it would have been bad,

A Pillar Problem
 

Yes - this can be a big problem - drivers need to move their head and shoulders left and right while in pedestrian areas to look around their A pillars.

all our years of living here it amazes us that people just walk out without looking all the time. Why?
I am not condoning cars not paying attention but more
Likely than not The villagers just walkout without regard for anything.

When I was a little boy, my mom always told me to look both ways before crossing the street.

It's wild that 60+ years later, that's still true.