Behind the Wheel: Pedestrian beware: Drivers can't see you - Fayetteville Observer
A young woman, she looked like a teenager, was dashing across Seventy-First School Road. She was wearing dark clothes, and I didn't see anything reflective. I may have forgotten the whole thing, but a few minutes later as I turned east on Cliffdale Road, two more young women were in the road - one was standing on the yellow lines waiting for traffic to pass. The two events together spurred me to remind pedestrians out there: Drivers cannot see you like you think they can. Even attentive drivers often cannot see people in dark clothes walking across the street until the last minute, if at all. The Fayetteville Police Department's Traffic Unit reports that two pedestrians were killed in 2015 and four in 2014, according to a spokesman. Pedestrians should cross at walks and lighted intersections when possible. Owen Drive road work. The state Department of Transportation wants to make Owen Drive safer between Walter Reed Road, near Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, and U. S. 301, aka, Eastern Boulevard. The department plans to turn Owen Drive from a five-lane street with intersections into what traffic officials call a "synchronized street," which. Source: www.fayobserver.com
