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Show I Police Chief Defines I Pedestrian ! Safety Obligations "The driver as well as the walker has a responsibility in j the field of pedestrian safety." Chief Tony Lambert of the ; Cedar City police department I made that statement today, I speaking in connection with the November pedestrian safety program pro-gram being sponscted locally by the local safety rommitteee in cooperation with the National Safety Council. "The pedestrian has the most to lose in an encounter with an automobile, and should protect himself," Chief Lambert said, "but he could follow all the rules of safe walking and still become the victim of a motorist who didn't observe the rules of safe driving." The chief mentioned as one of the most common driver offenders offend-ers the Crosswalk Creeper, who stops at the red lirht but keeps edging over the line. It gives walkers the jitters, he explained, and makes them afraid they may be run down before they get across the street. "And the driver who ignores the crosswalk and stops half of the way across it is just as bad," Chief Lambert said. Then there's the fellow who blows his horn without slowing down and expects the pedestrians pedes-trians to get out of the way, the chief pointed out. "The Traffic Light Jumper is even more dangerous," he said. "This driver watches the light and, the instant it changes, zooms off without checking to see if a pedestrian is in the way." Such poor driving habits can be dangerous, both to the motorist motor-ist and to the pedestrian, Chief Lambert said. Motorists need to follow all the rules of safe driving, driv-ing, all the time, to insure their safety and the safety of the often innocent pedestrian. |
