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"Roy. Just Roy." wrote:
> 
> 
> In other words, it wasn't the grief stricken mother at fault, it was
> yet another effing know-it-all teenager driving mommy's car without
> the slightest clue as to how to handle it in an emergency.
> 
> The little sprog was probably driving at 20+ mph over the limit,
> gabbing on the cell phone while she changed CDs on the stereo.
> 
> The FIRST thing I was taught in driver's ed is that you do ANYTHING
> necessary to avoid hitting pedestrians. Swerve, spin it, flip the car
> over, put it into a damn light pole, but you do NOT just slam on your
> brakes and pray that you'll stop in time.

I'm not "rolling" my car to avoid anything! I could be killed.
There is trend in the DC area for pedestrians to run across
lanes of traffic. This is almost suicide! Why should I "roll"
my car to avoid some idiot who makes irrational decisions?

Ron

Another example:
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Infant, Man Fatally Struck 
4 Other Pedestrians Hurt in Md. Incidents 

By Clarence Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 13, 2002; Page B10 

An infant was killed and a 2-year-old boy and two women were 
seriously injured last night when they were struck by a car as 
they tried to cross a busy street near a Prince George's County 
shopping center, authorities said. They were among at least six
pedestrians who were struck yesterday in Prince George's and
Montgomery counties, two of them fatally.

Shopping packages and purses lay scattered across New Hampshire 
Avenue just after the 7 p.m. accident on New Hampshire Avenue 
near Langley Park Shopping Center. The women, ages 24 and 30, 
and the toddler were struck soon after they stepped off the 
curb, officials said. They were not in a crosswalk.

The infant, whose sex was not immediately known by a police 
spokeswoman, died before reaching a hospital. The toddler 
was listed in fair condition last night at Children's Hospital. 
The women were in serious condition at Washington Hospital 
Center.

The driver stopped, and the preliminary police investigation 
indicated that pedestrian error caused the accident, said 
Officer Debbi Sabel, a county police spokeswoman. The names of 
the pedestrians were not immediately available. 

About 8 p.m., an unidentified man was fatally struck as he 
tried to cross the 7700 block of Landover Road in Prince 
George's, authorities said.

About 2 p.m., a 25-year-old Germantown woman was was struck 
by a 1995 Pontiac Sunfire as she walked across Great Seneca 
Highway at Dairymaid Drive in Germantown, Montgomery County 
police said. The victim was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma 
Center, where she was in critical condition last night.

Neither the man nor the woman had been in a crosswalk.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48752-2002Dec13.html