SMIDSY, SMIDSTRLE, SMIDEKWFPIAO!

[ColinJ]

it's your own fault for not wearing hi-viz

I don't think that particular driver would even have noticed if I'd fired a rocket propelled grenade straight at him!

 

[Night Train]

Streetview have done it for me ... here!

Imagine that those lights are on red, all oncoming vehicles have stopped at the opposing red light, there are no vehicles in front on this side of the road, no temporary yellow notice below the lights, and it is a bright sunny morning with perfect visibility. I was where that second vehicle in front is. It looks pretty straightforward to me!

There used to be a pedestrian refuge in the middle of the road but it was taken out a couple of years ago. I think it was safer the way it used to be but I suppose it was considered better not to impede the flow of traffic ...

I have driven through that junction more times then I can remember.
I have never failed to notice those lights and the condition of the junction.

 

[Arch]

A close call. Unfortunately a few years back I saw the same thing happen, but with bad outcome. The lights at the crossing changed, and the 12 year old girl waiting at the crossing saw the 'green man' and set off. I, however, looked right towards the on coming traffic to see a car approaching without any sign of braking. The girl spent a week in a coma, and six weeks in the QMC. I still have the image of what happened just six feet in front of me. The driver maintained that the traffic light was showing green right up to the point where he was convicted, despite the evidence of over a dozen witnesses.

My dad taught me from as early as I can remember, that the green man, or the red light, doesn't stop the traffic. I still, to this day, check before I start to cross - and I know several junctions were it pays to wait a moment because of those drivers who sail through following the car in front.

I also saw a girl knocked down, when I was little, (not on a crossing, just in the road outside school) I didn't see the actual impact but did see her lying in the road. That's stayed with me since.

 

[TVC]

Very True Arch. As it happens the girl's two friends also looked and didn't set off, but she just made a decision to go - that's what kids do.
It was at the crossing outside the Co-op on Aylestone Road at about 6.20pm, so you can imagine how busy it was with traffic and peds coming from all directions. Fortunately a nurse was in a car waiting at the lights coming out of town and she was there taking care of the girl immediately, although there wasn't much to do other than check she was still breathing.

 

[Arch]

Very True Arch. As it happens the girl's two friends also looked and didn't set off, but she just made a decision to go - that's what kids do.

And in a right thinking world, that's what they ought to be able to do!