Today was run day. It was a hot 84 degrees which is a huge temperature increase for me - like double what I was accustomed to for months.
Other than the heat making things difficult, the run was going along rather swimmingly until I was at a 4 way traffic stop which usually isn't too much of problem for me in terms of driver courteous-ness.
As a runner for 15 years, I have seen the good, bad, & ugly in terms of drivers treating pedestrians right, or even paying attention to them.
Asides from INTERSTATES, the roads belong to the pedestrians too! There is no traffic light at this stop it is just a 4 way stop.
The circled portion of the graphic above is where the car seemed like it tried to plow into me!!! As you can see by my dots (which represent me), I had already made eye contact with this driver who I THOUGHT was stopping for me.
I was almost all the way across the road when the driver did this. I threw up my arms and yelled, "HELLO, don't you see me???"
They looked pissed kept driving. Appeared to be a male in the late 50s/ early 60s. Unfortunately they sped off too fast for me to catch a read on the license plates & as there is no traffic light there, there's no cameras.
In 15 years, this is the closest I felt to actually getting ran over. UGH!!!
The car was red and I felt like I was gonna get hit so I entitled this "seeing red. "
Generally, I don't even let drivers let me pass, I just run behind them to be extra safe. The fact I was within feet of being safely on the other side of this 4 way interection and the car did see me but got this close to me anyway is unsettling.
Anybody else have close calls?
What should you do about such a dangerous driver if you can't really report them?
Be safe out there runner's AND pedestrians.
