- Have you ever seen other drivers charging pedestrians?
It's incredibly dangerous,
and if you're on a driving test,
you're definitely going to fail.
Today, we're going to be tips and strategies to increase
pedestrian safety
and reduce your chances of being involved in a crash.
Stick around,
we'll be right back
with that information.
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Welcome back, Rick with Smart Drive Test
talking to you today about pedestrian safety.
Pedestrians and other vulnerable road users make up
25% of traffic deaths.
Pedestrians alone
make up almost 17% of traffic deaths.
And in 2018,
the number of traffic deaths involving pedestrians
spiked
causing concern amongst trade traffic authorities.
75% of those pedestrian deaths
happened at night.
So for pedestrians,
never step out into a crosswalk at an intersection
assuming that traffic is going to stop
or that the driver has in fact seen you.
For drivers,
know that at all intersections,
whether they're controlled or uncontrolled
pedestrians have the right of way.
So give way to pedestrians at intersections.
For pedestrians,
make sure that if you're walking along a roadway
that doesn't have a sidewalk,
make sure that you're facing traffic,
make sure that you're listening
because the other
theory about why
pedestrian deaths have increased
is because they're wearing headphones
or they're on their cell phone.
So
know that that sound is incredibly important
and that you can
hear traffic approaching or cars approaching
and then you can move farther off the roadway.
And for pedestrians at crosswalks,
whether mid-block or at an intersection,
if you're the least bit unsure,
make sure that you get eye contact with the driver
and know that he or she is going to stop.
And if you're the least bit unsure,
just wave them on and let them go.
For new drivers and those drivers preparing for a test
in residential areas, you must give one lane of space
between you and the pedestrian.
So if the pedestrian is crossing the road
here and you want to make a left hand turn here,
you must wait
for the pedestrian to attain the curb on this side.
Same thing as if the pedestrian
is going in the other direction,
you must also wait for the pedestrian here
to attain the curb before you can proceed.
If you're turning right
at the intersection,
same thing,
the pedestrian has to attain
either curb depending on which direction they're going
before you can proceed
in a residential area.
If you are at a complex intersection
and making a left-hand turn
here
and you were waiting to proceed here
into the left hand turning lane
and the pedestrian is going in this direction,
you must give half a lane
between your vehicle and the pedestrian before proceeding.
So the pedestrian has to attain
the halfway point of this lane
before you start making
your left hand turn here.
If the pedestrian is coming towards you
and there's a concrete barrier in the middle here,
once the
pedestrian attains the concrete barrier,
then you can proceed with your left hand turn.
At complex intersections,
when you're making a right-hand turn,
if the pedestrian is approaching you,
the pedestrian has to
attain the curb
before you can execute your right-hand turn.
If a pedestrian is going away from you
in this direction,
once the pedestrian gets to the halfway point of the lane
beside the one that you're going to be turning into,
you can begin your right-hand turn.
Now, if pedestrians are on the other side of the road
and they're
approaching in this direction,
as long as they're on the other side
of this concrete barrier in the middle here,
then you can execute right-hand turn.
But once they're on this side,
your side of the concrete barrier,
then you need to wait for them to attain the curb
because they're coming towards you and
so to, you're moving towards them
and they're moving towards you,
so you'll need to wait until they attain the curb
or the traffic island if there is a traffic island there
in the center of the road.
When waiting for pedestrians to cross,
you're going to wait here for the pedestrian to
attain the position
that you need them to safely make your turn.
Wait here with signal on,
do not move up here
and charge the pedestrian.
It's simply dangerous
and you'll terrify the pedestrian.
If you do it to me,
you'll incur my wrath, because
it's my pet peeve
in driving, when left turning vehicles charge pedestrians
at the crosswalk.
When turning right,
same thing,
keep your vehicle straight,
do not angle into the crosswalk.
You can move forward a little bit
across the crosswalk and across the stop line,
but wait for the pedestrian to either attain the curb
or be
halfling
away from you.
If it's a mid-block crosswalk,
stop your vehicle
so that you can see
the line markings on the roadway
that will give you about one vehicle length
between you and the crosswalk,
and then again,
wait for the pedestrian to attain the curb
before you proceed.
Turning right at a complex intersection with slip lanes
or turning lanes and there's a crosswalk here,
again, you want to stop back
so that you can see the line markings on the roadway.
And again, that'll give you about a vehicle space
between you and the pedestrians.
So you want to be able to see the lines
over the top of the hood.
You can angle in a little bit here,
that's inevitable because you're turning right.
That gives you some tips and strategies
to keep pedestrian safe.
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