Police Offer Tips During Pedestrian Safety Month

Regardless of the way you select to journey, at one level or one other it’s your ft that get you the place you might want to go.

August is Pedestrian Security Month. As a part of a statewide effort to extend consciousness about pedestrian security, the Hawai‘i Police Division is providing security tricks to motorists and pedestrians.

When drivers keep secure speeds and follow different secure driving behaviors, a safer strolling setting is created for the group. Pedestrians from keiki to kūpuna must do their half, too, in training secure habits.

Based on the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration, 6,516 pedestrians have been killed in visitors crashes in 2020 all through the US. On the Large Island, three pedestrians have been killed in 2021 and 4 have been killed thus far this yr.

“By everybody doing their half, we might help cut back accidents and fatalities on Hawai‘i Island roadways,” a media launch from the police division stated.

Listed here are some security suggestions for drivers:

• Look out for pedestrians in every single place, always.
• Use additional warning when driving in hard-to-see circumstances, corresponding to nighttime or dangerous climate.
• Decelerate and be ready to cease when turning or in any other case coming into a crosswalk.
• Yield to pedestrians in crosswalks and cease nicely again from the crosswalk to provide different autos a possibility to see the crossing pedestrians to allow them to cease, too.
• By no means move autos stopped at a crosswalk. There is likely to be folks crossing the place you may’t see.
• By no means drive inebriated and/or medication.
• Observe the pace restrict, particularly round folks on the road, in class zones and in neighborhoods the place kids are current.
• Be additional cautious when backing up and search for pedestrians.

Police supplied these security suggestions for pedestrians:

• Observe the foundations of the highway and obey indicators and indicators.
• Stroll on sidewalks at any time when they’re out there.
• If there isn’t a sidewalk, stroll dealing with visitors and as removed from visitors as doable.
• Cross streets at crosswalks or intersections. Search for automobiles in all instructions, together with these turning left or proper.
• If a crosswalk or intersection just isn’t out there, find a well-lit space the place you’ve the very best view of visitors. Look ahead to a niche in visitors that enables sufficient time to cross safely; proceed expecting visitors as you cross.
• Look ahead to automobiles coming into or exiting driveways or backing up in parking heaps.
• Keep away from alcohol and medicines when strolling; they impair your skills and your judgment.