Pedestrians' safety in the US
According to NCSL (National Conference of State Legislatures, published in Dec 2016) , there was a little less than 5,000 pedestrian casualties in the year of 2012 nationwide, meaning on average more than 10 cases are happening every single day somewhere on this vast land of the US. While it's an absolutely sad fact to hear, it'd be not surprising if that happened to me. This morning when I was running the way back home from dropping off HG at the daycare as usual, I was crossing 4-lane road (2-lane per each direction) when the pedestrian's signal was green. I noticed, then, a pickup truck was approaching and entering the intersection on the right-turn lane, with a speed faster than those that normally stop before the crossing. I was running but started slowing down and ready to stop since the car didn't seem to slow down. The pickup truck ended up making an abrupt stop passed the stop line, when I expressed my discomfort to the driver. This time I was attentive eno