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From personal experience, I have had to dodge people outright walking into traffic to cross a road, ignoring all the cars and staring at their phones. This has s happened serval times in the last year for me. The worst offender was someone walking across a 10-lane highway (5 lanes each side with a grass divider) during rush hour traffic.
Same. Daily. WTAF is so important you have to stare at your phone in a crosswalk?
don't pedestrians have right of way on crosswalks??
Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way. You still have to pay some basic attention to your surroundings.
I think what the experts are saying is that bigger cars are more deadly. Being distracted wasn't always a death sentence.
The simplest method to get away with murder is causing a car accident.
Yes, but I guess your family can argue that you had the right of way when a giant truck turns you into a hood ornament because you were watching Facebook shorts instead of looking both ways before crossing a street
I guess it's a different situation in Germany compares to the US
How? Please elaborate
Here you can pretty much cross the street on a crosswalk without looking because people are more careful.
According to the laws of man, yes.
According to the laws of physics? Nope.