How about they show the rest of the video (BEFORE) the crash? The immediate police response, if you recall, said they saw the woman in advance enter the road from the median walkway (look in the Google/Bing map pictures and you’ll see the media has a stone walkway for people to cross at this point, making this a sanctioned crossing area)
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It’s not a sanctioned crossing area. There’s even a sign telling pedestrians not to use it.
There is a stoned crossing area prior to the intersection and Tempe and elsewhere in Arizona with the incredibly long blocks allow people to cross, they facilitate it. The police officials earlier in the week reminded citizens to simply be careful doing so--they did not say stop doing it. Again, there are areas, such as that stone walkway, where they have made accomodations for people crossing instead of having to walk half mile or more to a cross walk.
And yes, I do go to Arizona, I have seen these first hand, and, yes, I have crossed mid-block, both in spaces upgraded for it and others where people have worn trails across. It is normal and common.
Let's talk about that unsafe car with sensors that failed and felon at the wheel who wasn't paying attention.