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Originally Posted by Occasionally6
You also have to aware of pedestrians. Just recently I had a couple of guys cross the road just as the lights changed to green, from in front of a bus that blocked them from my sight and the car in the next lane's. Had I been trying to coast through and not slowed as a precaution, or the other car not been stopped, it would have been very close indeed. (It wasn't very far off as it was.)
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One of hundreds of accident scenarios that aren't preventable when one of the parties (pedestrians) in this case don't follow the rules. I try to look under a high vehicle for a sign of pedestrians, but I definitely slow down or stop when I notice the other vehicles haven't yet moved on green (emergency vehicle, pedestrian, bicyclists, etc.) It has saved me a few times over the years. Economic driving techniques and safe driving techniques (that go beyond following the law) should go hand in hand.