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Old 04-23-2010, 05:14 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by 101lifts2 View Post
Negating the threat portion and greedy mom, you are 100% responsible for your vehicle control. Granted there is maybe nothing you could have done, but nontheless. I'm assuming no witnesses? And what is opposite the crosswalk? Ran into the street, but sort of perpendicular to the crosswalk?

I think there is more to this story..like you were distracted or something, but don't know. They don't ticket you for careless driving if you are not doing anything illegal (well..not supposed to anyway..lol).
I tend to believe exactly what he wrote, but then again I'm biased by my own experiences. A few days ago in downtown Toronto, at 6:00am, I almost cleaned two construction workers off the road. I had a green. They felt that because they were crossing 30 feet up from the red light that it must not apply to them. They stepped right out into traffic and if I had swerved one foot less, there would likely be two more bodies in the morgue.
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