Re: 鈥淔orget the speed limit: Slow down in residential areas,鈥� column, Jan. 20.
It is very frustrating that pedestrians again and again refuse to take responsibility for their safety. Pedestrians should wear reflective material at night.
Imagine the reduction in pedestrian death rates if walkers simply had some situational awareness and did not place themselves in front of moving vehicles until they had been acknowledged and the vehicles were slowing down. Try it some time, it鈥檚 not that hard.
I am an avid walker and driver.
The physics are simple: The pedestrians pay the price and are dead right. It is much easier not to put a 175-lb. pedestrian in front of a vehicle from a stop, than to stop the same multi-thousand-pound vehicle for an entitled pedestrian (in or out of a crosswalk).
When are we going to make pedestrians responsible for common sense and their own safety?
Ken Mawdsley
Saanich
