A dynamic present makes people live in a frantic rhythm. Everyone is in a hurry somewhere, running headlong, running across the roadway in an unspecified place, which entails terrible consequences. It's a shame when a simple mistake leads to tragedy. We will understand this issue.
Accident involving pedestrians-children
Let's start the story with child injuries due to the wrong crossing of the road. Toddlers are the most vulnerable pedestrians. Sometimes it is difficult for the driver to notice them, because teenagers do not follow safety rules.
It is parents who must teach the children the correct orientation in traffic situations, to cultivate caution, prudence and discipline.
Recommendations to parents
The main thing is to be a good role model, because children copy the behavior and actions of adults. So, the tips:
- Please note: if you are a violator of the rules, children will repeat your mistakes.
- Teach you how to cross the road.
- Talk together every day about the most secure transition.
- The child must know that before making the transition, you must make sure of safety!
- Explain that you must not cross the road due to standing transport.
- Tell us about the hidden danger and that the car cannot stop instantly.
These are the main issues that you need to work out every day with your child. And it is also necessary to use reflective elements on children's things and, of course, to find time for conversation. Take the route from home to school along the safest route with your child. Teach you to cross unregulated intersections, as well as pay attention to narrow sidewalks, the entrance to the truck store, plan the day correctly so you don't have to rush. All this will help protect your child while you are at work.
Now consider the main mistakes made by pedestrians. Let's talk about the causes of accidents involving pedestrians. So what leads to an accident?
Headphones
The first, most common mistake. Listening to music with the help of this modern gadget, a person is isolated from the outside world. Therefore, he will not hear the noise of an approaching vehicle. And the driver will remain confident to the last that he will react in time. Since it is absolutely impossible without them, use one earphone or make a low volume.
Pay attention to the traffic light
This is the second reason for accidents involving pedestrians. Even when the "green man" caught fire, you cannot immediately carry out the movement. Anyway, you need to make sure the safety of the action. After all, how many accidents are due to this error, and all from the rage of many unscrupulous motorists who are rushing to the blinking yellow light.
Departure of the vehicle to the side of the road
How many pedestrians die for this reason is hard to imagine. Accidents occur in megacities and small towns. But in such situations it is still possible to protect yourself. It is necessary:
- Stay away from the edge of the roadway.
- Waiting for transport at the bus stop, choose a safe place to react in time.
- Keep track of the situation on the road.
Sometimes people are not just in a hurry, but also deeply immersed in themselves, think about problems, turn off their attention.
Crossing a road with four or more lanes
This is the case when accidents often occur with a pedestrian on a crosswalk.Overcoming each lane of the roadway, you need to look to the sides to make sure safety. One car can stop and let a person pass, while those traveling in another lane will rush without slowing down. Often, collisions happen when a lorry passes a pedestrian, because of which the situation on the road is not visible.
Always look around!
Here is a simple example of a pedestrian accident involving a pedestrian crossing. A person approaches the roadway and, without looking around, begins to move. He is deeply convinced that he is absolutely right being on the “zebra” and that he can make the transition as he wants and when he wants. But this is a violation of the rules. Before you go on a pedestrian crossing, you must:
- Stay.
- Look around.
- Skip approaching vehicles.
And only then, making sure of safety, continue to gently move, constantly turning his head to the sides, without stopping or running across.
Bypass public transport correctly
In this situation, accidents involving pedestrians are most frequent. The tram should be bypassed in front, and the trolleybus or bus in the back, and only after you make sure that the traffic is safe. But you can’t cross the road near the stop. No need to be lazy, walk a few meters to the equipped place. And drivers should be very careful when approaching stops, because both children and pensioners, seeing a bus, get off their feet and cross the road at random.
Traffic in residential areas
Firstly, in the yards, pedestrians behave more relaxed and less carefully. Secondly, frequent accidents occur due to poor visibility, garbage bins, green spaces, clothesline on ropes and so on interfere. Thirdly, under the wheels can be a child running with the ball or playing other outdoor games, as well as a pensioner. It is necessary to be wary of children skating, skating, scooters, bicycles.
What do the numbers say?
The statistics of accidents involving pedestrians is very disappointing. Most often, accidents are caused by pedestrians. Here are the data for the regions for 2017:
- In Moscow, pedestrians caused more than 2.5 thousand accidents. Killed 220 people.
- In the Rostov region recorded more than a thousand accidents, killing 133 people.
- In the Magadan region, fifty traffic accidents occurred due to a pedestrian with three fatalities.
Most accidents occur in the dark or because of poor lighting, as well as pedestrians being drunk. It is difficult for the driver to react if the pedestrian crosses the road in dark clothes without reflective elements. Russia ranks third in the world in the number of accidents with dead people.
Pedestrian accident prevention
As a rule, these measures are assigned to the traffic police. To reduce the number of accidents, it is necessary to increase the level of knowledge of traffic rules among citizens everywhere. By 2020, the school curriculum plans to introduce a new elective.
As a preventive measure, it is planned to increase the fine for the passage of the carriageway in the wrong place. Today it is 500 rubles. Traffic police officers carry out special actions in the form of distributing to citizens memos about the importance of observing traffic rules.
Let's talk about cyclists
They are also road users. A cyclist hitting a pedestrian is an equally common accident. The first will be punished in a situation:
- A collision on the sidewalk is prohibited. You need to move along the right edge of the road or along a bicycle path.
- Hiding from the scene of an accident.
- Causing physical and moral harm.
Accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists also happen quite often.
Juvenile cyclists
Adolescents under 14 years of age are prohibited from cycling on the roadway. They can carry it out only in specially designated places, namely:
- on bike paths;
- in parks;
- in stadiums;
- in the yard;
- kids on the sidewalks (on small bicycles).
Children should always be supervised by their parents, as well as in a special protective helmet and equipment.
Most examples of accidents involving pedestrians indicate that in 90% of cases they knowingly violate traffic rules.
How to act?
Accidents involving pedestrians occur mainly due to their carelessness. How to cross the road:
- Only at the pedestrian crossing, and unregulated intersections along the line of roadsides or sidewalks.
- If there are no equipped crossings in the vicinity, first make sure of safety and cross the roadway at right angles.
- No need to make a transition in an area with poor visibility due to standing vehicles, buildings and green spaces.
- You cannot talk on a cell phone while crossing the road.
- Volume elements of clothing, for example, a hood, a scarf, a scarf, hide visibility.
- In the dark, you must identify yourself with reflective elements.
Do not rush, you always need to be careful. Agree, it’s nice when the driver stops and misses, and he has a feeling of respect and gratitude to you because of your designation of yourself as flickers.
Accident with the elderly
No less important issue. Because there are many such incidents. Drivers, seeing an aged man on the road, pass by. You can not remain so indifferent, because he is not oriented in space as well as in his youth, especially in the danger zone. You need to stop and help him cross the road.
Unfortunately, for many accidents they are fatal. Of course, the main cause of accidents are the psychophysiological changes that occur in the body with aging. Therefore, having noticed an old man or an old woman on a zebra, it is necessary to reduce the speed as much as possible, and then stop, thus ensuring a safe transition.
Having got into an accident, people of advanced age believed that they were crossing the road correctly, while losing sight of their characteristics of a middle-aged organism. But if you are alert and attentive, an accident can be avoided. Let's talk about how to prevent yourself from an accident.
How to cross the road with a stroller?
Often, young mothers cross the road inadvertently, talking on a cell phone, using headphones, not making sure of safety. There were cases when cars were knocking down strollers, babies were dying. This is scary, so you should always be careful. How to cross the road with a stroller:
- Only at the pedestrian crossing.
- Making sure of safety.
- It is better to go first on the roadway, and lead the stroller along, in which case it can be pushed to a safe place.
- In the middle, stop and once again make sure that there are no obstacles to the further transition.
And yet, if you see an impatient motorist who wants to rush off quickly, give way to him, your safety is more expensive than a few minutes.
You should always stay alert, because accidents involving pedestrians often happen, but due to the fault of the drivers of the vehicle. Namely:
- The driver may simply not notice you.
- Fall asleep at the wheel.
- Be drunk.
- Gape.
- Due to vehicle malfunction.
- Traffic light breakdown.
- Due to non-compliance with the speed limit.
- Bad weather conditions and the dark can interfere.
We examined the issue of accidents involving pedestrians at a pedestrian crossing. If you do not take care of your safety, no one will do it for you. No rush is worth a human life. You must always remain alert and alert. Think, after five minutes they won’t save, but they can forever take away the most precious thing a person has - life.