Road death

Howcome every time some bonehead gets run over by a car, it's the driver on whom the attention is focussed?
Where you going to fast/too slow, not paying attention, had you been drinking, under the influence of drugs? And so on and so on.
The pedestrian, short of him/her actually throwing themselves in an obvious suicide attempt, in front of a vehicle, is never blamed.
How does society stop this lemming-like carnage? Well! I have the answer. It's a bit out of left field and may be considered by some as simplistic but I'll put it out there and see. Okay...ready...here it is - Pedestrians - STAY OFF THE BLOODY ROAD!! I don't drive on the footpath, you stay of the road. If ever there was a single purpose structure, it's a road. it doesn't double up as a playground or a carpark (unless of course you're talking about the M4 at rush hour). Still not a play area, though. It's for one thing and one thing only - traffic.

When I was a boy (God, I sound like my granda), at Primary School, I, and the rest of the school, were taught a thing called 'The Green Cross Code'. In this code there is a line which states, and I quote (roughly - it was a lonnng time ago after all)- 'when it's safe to cross, do so, looking and listening all the time'. Meaning exactly that; keep looking. Vehicles have a habit of just appearing from seemingly nowhere. Out of side streets, from parking spaces, wherever. Now, how many times have we seen people look each way (surprisingly, not always each way) and then step out onto the road willy-nilly as if that one brief look acts as some sort of magic talisman protecting them from all evil?
Is it any wonder they get cleaned up? Bloody pedestrians - think they have a God-given right to cross whenever the hell they like. And the Pedestrian council? Those tossers who whine on and on about 'the roads there to share'. What the hell's THAT all about? If there's a semi-trailer bearing down on me, I'm sharing nothing - the road's ALL HIS. Pedestrian council indeed; a bit like the underwear wearing brigade. Time for the Big Stick methinks.

That's all folks! And hey! Be careful out there!