Show pedestrian IS NO JOKE the national bureau of casualty and surety underwriters points out that of the fatalities resulting from automobile accidents last year were pedestrians two elements of this situation axe are important one Is the statistical truth that by fax far the greater number of pedestrians involved in accidents are doing things which they should not do the other Is that a pedestrian may be in the right but that reduce the disadvantage at which he will always be until collision proof armor is invented ingente d the premise of many jokes that the pedestrian is a persecuted animal does not hold water the the pedestrian is safe from any automobile if he observes a few commands I 1 cross only at intersections 2 cross with the tha traffic signal whenever there is one 3 keep children oft off the street 4 on rural highways walk to the left facing oncoming traffic 5 avoid walking from behind parked cars 6 look ironically the pedestrian has became standard material for the joke smiths and cartoonists just as the henpecked husband or the taxpayer no doubt we shall have a new version of the old wheeze making it the pedestrian not the chicken who crosses the road to get on the other side |