Impatient drivers scare pedestrians

This thing happens almost every day, and is extremely annoying.

I'm halfway through the crosswalk on a walk light, walking at 3-4mph.   Then some car arrives at the intersection and instead of waiting their turn, starts turning left, through the same crosswalk, at high speed.  They seem to time it so that they just barely miss me by a foot or two.   Sometimes I have to accelerate to get out of the way.   This feels extremely disrespectful.   People who do that are scum.   They shouldn't start turning until the way is completely clear.

rottenseed says...

People honk at me all the time for waiting. In their defense, maybe they don't see the pedestrian, but I do, and I don't want to feel the need to commit vehicular manslaughter in order to save 8 seconds. The only way I'll go, and there's still a pedestrian, is if they're walking towards me and are half way beyond they traffic waiting to go the opposite way.

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