Committed to your safety
I was riding my bike down the South Oval to my dorm this week. To get back home, I have to cross one street, with a traffic light east-and-west and a crosswalk north-and-south. The crosswalk light shows a white light of a person walking when you can cross, and an orange hand when you can’t. After the white walk sign, the orange hand blinks 15 times before turning solid orange to give you time to cross (15 seconds).
I was about 20 feet from the street and looked up to see that the white walk light was on. I had at least 15 seconds to cross, since the orange light hadn’t started blinking. I looked back down to make sure I wasn’t going to run over anything icky in the road (it was wet) when all of a sudden a car almost hits me! I looked up and made a “ahhh what are you doing you almost hit me!” face. I finished getting across the street, when all of a sudden, a police officer jumps in front of my bike and starts yelling to stop!
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