anton wrote:
Road safety training for pedestrians is to say the least minimal in this country.
Where, pray tell, is road safety training for pedestrians anything other than minimal, besides perhaps inside one's home? You had the "Green Cross Code", right? We had "Cross on the Green - not in between!" Note that i said HAD.
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I am not sure which country this lady came from or when, of if she was born in the UK, or speaks or reads in english.
It is highly possible that she never watches UK tv or has access to roadsafety material in a language she can read.
Take a look at this pic. I doubt she's a native Brit.
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How can she be taught so that she can teach her children?
Too late. Her son already knew, hopefully he will be allowed to pass on his wisdom. I will risk guessing that there is a socially constructed idea that allows the fallacy that manmade law is superior to natural law to take root. Thankfully, this child's mind has not yet been polluted by this dangerous solipsism.
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Are non-english speaking pedestrians having more accidents?
What disadvantage/added risk factor is there to those who do not speak or read english as a first language?
Both are damn good questions. I know others have the guts to ask this question. I hope at least one of these people are in the right place, at the right time, and in the right company, to answer honestly, and for that answer to have a meaningful and positive effect on road safety for all road users going forward.
Some of you may have heard me reference the "Boulevard of Death", aka Queens Boulevard. I can truthfully state that several years ago, the people who would 'dare me to strike them' appeared to originate, mostly, outside of the U.S.A., and that such acts of 'reckless defiance' typically took place in places like Queens Boulevard, especially around commercially active shopping districts.
What scares me, is that over the past few years, I would now have to say that the high schools in Queens and Long Island are now competing with shopping districts for the highest number of recklessly defiant jaywalking acts per given unit of time. I take this to mean that this 'mutation' has been passed to the next generation, and that the origin of Patient Zero is no longer a meaningful part of the solultion here in America.
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(P.S.: I do not really buy the "she saved her daughter" story. There could just as easily have been a motor bike on the outside of the lorry, she failed to make eye contact with the driver before crossing, she failed to find a safe place to cross. Etc... etc.)
OK, how about
"She chose to apply negative modifiers to her saving throw, which overrode the positive modifiers her son attempted to apply, thus failing where she could have easily succeded.
However, she also managed to re-roll again for her daughter, and despite the negative modifiers already in effect, her daughter survived."
No insult was intended by the use of roleplaying metaphors.
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