Sentences with phrase «of jaywalking»

It is from 1993 and actually has a pretty shocking title «Pedestrian accidents on Merseyside: the case for criminalization of jaywalking»

Even though it's pedestrians — some of them drunk, some of them jaywalking, some of them children who aren't cautious — who're being saved, not the occupants, it will be part of the car's safety score.

But a combination of technology and psychology... can greatly reduce instances of jaywalking and will prevent repeat offences,» Wang said.

You might have heard of the secret history of jaywalking — how car companies managed to upend the laws a century ago so that vehicles, not pedestrians, had the right of way on the roads.

Not exact matches

The city of Asheville, North Carolina, has released videos from nine different body cameras showing the beating and abuse of a man suspected by police to have been jaywalking.

In cases like jaywalking, and other minor discretionary offenses, blacks accounted for 95 percent of all arrests.

You first do not see the inherint evil in eternal suffering for a minor transgression (namely disbelief), add on top of that your willing acceptance for a life sentence in prison for jaywalking (with the analogy given), well lets just say I was blown away.

I remember his puffing on his cigars, and his constant jaywalking across the streets of Manhattan in utter confidence that the cars would stop, and his Lutheran - style preaching, and his bad coffee.

There were face - mask grabbings, delays of game, personal fouls, holding, illegal procedure and probably jaywalking and illegal left turns.

A six - month - old baby and her 30 - year - old mother suffered minor injuries after being struck by a car turning left out of the Arlington Town Square parking lot as they jaywalked toward Starbucks, according to Arlington Heights Police Commander Nathan Hayes.

A 6 - month - old baby and her 30 - year - old mother suffered minor injuries after being struck by a car turning left out of the Arlington Town Square parking lot as they jaywalked.

Another issue raised by @user4012 in the comments is that (some) people break law if chance of prosecuting is small, like jaywalking or smoking marijuana.

Also consider that the chance for an accident may not seem particularly concerning while you are on the train in comparison to when you are jaywalking, or smoking the odd cigar, eating red meat, having a glass of red wine.

And to maybe relieve the stress of the day onto the jaywalking individuals who don't know how to properly cross a street.

Basically, she is saying that like jaywalking rules, created to get pedestrians out of the way of cars, texting while walking is slowing drivers down and creating a burden for them that has to be legislated out.

It really was just across the street, and the intersection was a couple of hundred yards away so I thought I would do what everyone calls jaywalking, and go straight from the hotel across to Sophia's (the yellow line on the google map above).

And the real lesson of this is that the next time someone is killed and they blame the victim for jaywalking, look at where it happened.

An illustration of this is a pedestrian who is hit by a motorist, but was jaywalking at the time.

When another car speeds through a yellow light or a pedestrian decides to jaywalk, the chances of being involved in an accident increase.

Is this just another sometimes - law we can relegate to the forgotten corners of our otherwise law - abiding minds, right next to jaywalking, or something we should really be worried about?

Bikers and pedestrians should also always follow all the rules of the road, including never jaywalking, crossing at designated crosswalks, traveling with or against the flow of traffic and paying attention to others around them.

However, if a pedestrian is jaywalking, doesn't give vehicles the proper amount of time needed to yield, or is otherwise negligently disobeying pedestrian traffic laws, he or she could easily be held partly liable for the accident.

Examples of Non-Moving Violations are no seat belt, improper parking, etc.; and pedestrian violations include jaywalking.