For the third year in a row, Ocean City has seen zero pedestrian fatalities and city officials are now taking on a new challenge: eliminating pedestrian-related collisions.
According to figures provided by the Ocean City Police Department, they’re halfway there. There were 17 accidents involving pedestrians this year, a 48.5 percent decrease from 2014.
“The fact that we haven’t had a pedestrian fatality since 2012 is unparalleled by other cities,” said Lt. Scott Harner, the commander of the Ocean City Police Department’s traffic safety unit. “I’m happy to report we’re down in minor collisions as well.”
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So why build an ugly and ineffective median wall, again?
ReplyDeleteGet ready for the NEWEST "campaign", courtesy of the Gestapo ---
ReplyDeleteCharges like "walking inattentively" (talking to you wife as you walk down the sidewalk), "dangerous walking" (a subjective charge, based on how close to the road you were), "failure to yield while walking" (for those people who take 3 minutes to cross the street and make traffic wait), "hindering while walking" (for those who don't walk fast enough for the police), and "suspicious walking" (stopping and starting while innocuously window shopping). And the old standby, "walking at night" (something EVERYONE used to do before they knew how bad that was....)
There will be fines, of course, and "undercover" cops. It IS Ocean City. The home of the biggest and most infamous "we don't care what the Constitution says, WE ARE THE POLICE!!!" gang in the USA.
It would probably save you a lot of time and trouble if you just drove down to the end of the Rt 50 bridge and threw your wallet at the cops, then drove somewhere else.
Keep cheering.
If they keep getting hit of course the number will go down. We need smarter drivers and people walking need to the road rule. Which the first thing is don't walk in front of an on coming car. Drivers need to watch all sides of the road and be ready for any thing at all times. Just saying.map
ReplyDeleteDarwin's principal at work
ReplyDeleteIt is not the duty of government to protect people from their own stupidity.
ReplyDeleteI drive a bus in OC and it is a miracle more pedestrians don't get killed. Running across the highway in black clothes in the dark and drunk. Only because of attentive drivers have these candidates for the game of Frogger not been squashed.
ReplyDeleteclueless 4:31 as usual. sad.
ReplyDeleteClueless?
ReplyDeleteRemember what the Gestapo said about the DUI checkpoints?
Who's clueless??
And who in the heck EVER thought the police would be pulling people over for tuning the radio or talking to kids in the back seat or "looking down" while driving??
WHO is clueless?
Get off your knees and quit cheering.
The slower ones have been thinned out of the herd, and those that remain, are quick enough not to get run over.
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