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Show Police Chief Lambert V arris Pedestrians Oi Dangers Inherent in Thoughtless Actions So you don't drive a car . . . hardly ride in one? Well, don't let this fact give you any false assurance. You can still end up as a traffic accident fatality! That warning was passed along by Tony Lambert, Cedar City chief of police, today as he cautioned pedestrians that traveling travel-ing on foot is no guarantee against involvement in traffic accidents. Chief Lambert spoke on behalf of the pedestrian safety program being sponsored by the Cedar City Safety Committee and the National Safety Council this month. "A great many pedestrians killed kill-ed each year are non-drivers," he said. "Being non-drivers they don't realize the problems the driver faces when he sits behind the wheel of his car, and so they guess wUd when they try to figure fig-ure out his reactions." Chief Lambert pointed out that even people who can drive have a tendency to drop the driver's point of view when they step out of their cars and become pedestrians. pedes-trians. "The pedestrian's best safeguard safe-guard is always to figure that the driver can't see him," he said. "Then he won't expect the driver to watch out for him." Chief Lambert advised walkers to observe the following rules to stay safe in traffic. 1. Cross streets at corners only. 2. Never walk into the street from between parked cars. 3. Obey traffic signs and signals cross on GREEN or WALK only. 4. Wait on the sidewalk not in the street for the GREEN or WALK or for a gap in traffic traf-fic if the corner has no traffic signal. 5. Cross streets in crosswalks. 6. Look LEFT and then RIGHT for traffic while crossing. Watch sharply for turning cars. Be especially careful at one way streets to check the direction direc-tion of approaching traffic). 7. After getting off a bus or streetcar, don't go around it, front or rear. Wait until it leaves before crossing. 8. If you're not feeling well or are in poor health, allow extra time to get help if you must cross streets. Get glasses if your sight is poor. 9. At night when walking on poorly lighted streets or country coun-try roads, wear something white or refleotorized. 10. Walk on LEFT facing traffic where there are no sidewajks. |