Monday Morning.
A crossing guard stands in the middle of the street, red stop sign in hand.
Children begin walking across.
A few stragglers run for the cross walk, in the lead, a 12 year old girl. She gets to the corner just as a car makes the right turn and is about to drive right into the cross walk. Probably not a totally legal thing, but being the bulk of the children were on the other half of the street, the person probably felt is was close enough to empty and made the bad decision to proceed. The running girl sees the car and literally stops in her tracks, causing her to slip like you would on ice and fall on her behind. Another child, a boy, is right behind her. Thankfully, both are not quite in the path of the car, which finally realized they did a major wrong thing and stopped. The girl gets up and runs across the street.
The car, instead of continuing on, now decides to go straight through the intersection, instead of finishing the interrupted turn.
Say what? I think to myself. You going a different way makes up for your bad judgement?
That you wanted to immediately leave the scene of this almost accident, is very apparent to me at least.
As I sit at the light, I can see the crossing guard shaking her head. She can't believe what she has just witnessed, either.
It's just another day at the corner of Seco and Decoro.
Probably the worst intersection of schools and cars, that Santa Clarita has.
I am so glad nothing tragic happened this day.
I posted this, in a slightly different form, on our local paper's blog page and it is actually getting hits and comments.
ReplyDeleteIf it stops one accident from happening, I will be grateful.
Good for you, Angel! In this day of constant "communication" it's a good (although scary) reminder to pay attention to what's actually in front of you.
ReplyDeleteYeah. It's my daily commute. Past an Elementary AND Junior High School. Who's dumb idea was it to have them both next to each other... lol
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