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Honolulu, Hawaii police will begin to write tickets for people caught using their phones or other electronic devices while crossing at a crosswalk:
Police in Honolulu will begin writing tickets for people who get distracted by their cellphones while walking in a cross walk Wednesday. Honolulu is the first major city in the country to pass such a law, citing a high rate of pedestrians being hit in crosswalks.
"Starting today, texting while walking in a cross walk can get you a ticket," Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman reports for our Newscast unit. "In fact, a downward glance at a screen of any kind will cost you—a phone, a tablet, a video game."
Under the new law, the only legal reason for a pedestrian to use a cellphone while crossing a street or highway would be to call 911 to report an emergency.
Minimum fines for breaking the new law start at $15; for repeat offenders, the penalty ranges from $75 to $99. Higher rates — up to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second, and $500 for a third — had been considered earlier this year.
Also at the City and County of Honolulu. Bill 6 (2017).
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jcross on Thursday October 26 2017, @02:18AM (1 child)
Interesting, I'm thinking the inattentive drivers would fill the holes up for you. Just level with fill dirt and pave right over them. Add in a few solid headstones for alert drivers to dodge.
Seriously though, I sometimes wonder what roads would look like if every traffic fatality had a marker of some kind. You do see little memorials here and there, but I would assume that's just a small sample of the total. Would it act as a memento mori or just another feature of the landscape? I'm not sure whether it's a thing elsewhere but around here we have "ghost bikes" which are bikes painted white and decorated with flowers, to show where a cyclist got killed by a car. There are quite a few of them.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 26 2017, @06:15AM
The speed limit of the road that goes the whole length of Baja California is 35 MPH. I was doing 90 most of the time.
There is a large sign by the side of the road that says "This road was built for economic development, not for speed."
Whenever a car wrecked on that highway, they would push it off the side of the road - patrol cars have robust front bumpers for that very purpose - then leave it there forever.
Most of them were upside-down.
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