Citation

Chaudoin LE. J. Crim. Law. Criminol. (1931) 1948; 39(2): 265-268.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1948, American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Publisher Northwestern University Press)

DOI

10.2307/1138171

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Abstract

Pedestrians must be controlled in urban communities if traffic safety is to be achieved. The movements of pedestrian traffic largely control the movements of the vehicular traffic and certainly regulate the "death-o-meter pointers" as they record traffic accident deaths. National statistics reveal that in urban localities the automobile-pedestrian accident results in death in a much greater percentage of instances then in any other type of accident. Any safety program then should be spearheaded with a definite long-range pedestrian control program designed to regulate the pedestrian movement citywide

This program is not as easy as vehicular control in that the pedestrian desires to ievade police regulation. Enforcement of good, sound, reasonable pedestrian laws must be accomplished by a well-rounded educational program to "sell" the need for the effort.

It is a natural human feeling in the general pedestrian believe that because he has little or no physical protection against the automobile, he certainly should be entitled to protection by law. This believe is hardest to overcome, and to sway public opinion away from this erroneous view of the automobile-pedestrian conflict requires hard work plus a great amount of patience on the part of the police officer....

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