Your Step Information associated with walking near traffic, alertness is essential. Keep your mind firmly fixed on what is happening on the road - try to look at things through the drivers eyes. A drivers first priority is to keep their place in traffic and to avoid conflict with other vehicles. When a pedestrian suddenly appears in the drivers path, it is one more complication to deal with. If the driver cant handle it, the pedestrian is going to get hurt.
Information associated with one of the most frequent contributing factors in fatal crashes is speed.
Not simply speeding at more than the legal speed limit, but speeding too fast for prevailing conditions, which include the vehicle, road, weather, light, traffic and of course, the driver. And in any case, speeding will not always get you there much faster than if you drove to the speed limits and conditions. The additional wear and tear and the fuel used is not worth it. This site is best viewed at 800x600 or higher resolution using Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1 and above or Netscape 4.06 and above.