2012 Year of Record Low Fatalities – Remember the Pre-School Years
While truck and car crash death numbers are falling, the rate online drugstore without prescription of pedestrian fatalities in Washington, D.C. continues to be high.
In pre-school, we are told to look both ways and hold an adult’s hand when crossing the street. Even though as adults we may occasionally look only one way or even jaywalk, this simple advice stays with us forever preventing us from getting hit by moving objects. Recent news reports noted that “D.C traffic fatalities fall to record low in 2012”. Believe it or not, the number of accidents decreased over time since 1931. However, the number of pedestrians who were killed in traffic accidents continues to be high.
These facts are similar to other large cities around the country due to the increase in people who walk, bike, or take public transportation to and from work. A DDOT pedestrian program coordinator believes the “46 speed cameras and 47 red-light cameras” in D.C account for the low number of fatal accidents. Because of these cameras, D.C. plans to increase the number of cameras to 134. This means more speeding tickets and more money potentially coming into the District’s bank account, but also more lives being saved on the District of Columbia’s streets. From personal experience, there are speed cameras that flash at you even just a couple of miles an hour over the posted limit. These unmanned enforcement devices may keep drivers within the speed limit and keep pedestrians from getting killed. Safety should be the primary concern. The cameras in dangerous intersections are not prohibitively expensive, and the value of human life suggests that we, as a society, would like to see the number of street fatalities continue to decrease. Pedestrians should remember what we learned in pre-school; to stop, look and listen, even if there is no hand to hold before crossing the street. Likewise, motorists should obey the posted speed limit, and drivers should go even slower when road conditions are unsafe, such as when there is snow, ice and rain.