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Motorist Safety Tips:
- Slow down and be extra alert in school zones and neighborhoods, especially before and after school hours.
- Obey all traffic laws and speed limits.
- Yield to people in crosswalks.
- Always watch first for pedestrians and bicyclists before turning, backing up, and when driving at night.
Pedestrian Safety Tips
- Recognize and obey all traffic signals and markings. For example, a flashing "walk" sign is not an automatic "go" signal. It means a pedestrian has permission to cross. But must first stop and look both ways for motor vehicles.
- Never enter the street from between parked cars or from behind bushes or shrubs. Darting into the street accounts for the majority of child pedestrian fatalities.
- Look in all directions before crossing the street; look left, look right, then look left again.
- Cross the street at a corner or crosswalk and walk, not run, across intersections.
Bicycle Safety Tips
- Wear a bicycle helmet at all times when bicycling.
- Follow the rules of the road, which include riding on the right side of the road, with traffic, not against it.
- Use appropriate hand signals.
- Stop at all intersections, marked and unmarked; and stopping and looking left, right and left again before entering or crossing the street.
- Wear retro-reflective clothing.
For more bicycle and pedestrian safety info, check out the Watch for Me, NC campaign: www.watchformenc.org