Contempt of legislators and officials should address the road safety warning also in analyzing how meaning is the relationship between motorists and pedestrians.
Because, in countries seeking to preserve the safety of pedestrians, motorists are required to automatic detention of the vehicle to a pedestrian starts crossing the road at the crosswalk or equivalent area.
Instead, the law 24449, as have the priorities of vehicles on public roads, in Section 41 Inc. e) , states that "... This priority of (vehicle) next the right is absolute and is lost to the pedestrians crossing the road at the crosswalk or in dangerous zone designated as such, should the driver stop the vehicle if it endangers the pedestrian ...." This text
is especially unfortunate in Argentina.
Because a significant number of deaths in road accidents are pedestrians crossing the road at the intersections and were struck by drivers who believed that the pedestrian was going to stop or the dodge and that such therefore not an accident occur.
Compare the wording of the article analyzes the text of the old Law 13893, in its Article 49, Inc.) , ordered: "... Approaching this path (or pedestrian safety), the driver in all cases should reduce speed, and, if necessary, to completely stop your vehicle to give way to pedestrians, so that they can pass along their up normally and without interference in any way. ".
And note that the text challenging the old law commanded respect the normal course of pedestrians, adding the ban to disturb in any way. These words seem written for those impatient drivers' will pull the car over the pedestrian "disrupting the normal crossing of the road and, if forced to stop and give way, play with the throttle, increasing the motor speed, in an implicit threats against anyone who dared to stand in his way.
Today, respecting the existing traffic law, the orders will follow Argentina's very usual to "make finite" to pedestrians.
But, making the situation more critical of these pedestrians, the new traffic law mandates, in Article 41 Inc. g) - Point 3 ,: "The next priority of the right ... lost to ... any circumstances when it has stopped running ".
who drafted this law has not measured the consequences dangerous in this text.
For drivers who stop their vehicle at an intersection to yield to a pedestrian, will be penalized with the loss of the right of way that might have on the traffic coming from the left.
This punishment to safe drivers adds to the fact that, as we saw before, is no longer required to stop the vehicle for pedestrians to continue their progress as normal.
These two provisions together constitute a clear invitation to not ever stop walking in an alley and is without doubt one of the worst provisions of Law 24449 which we analyzed, which have not been detected by the bodies set to control the efficiency of the new traffic law and, also, by NGOs that allegedly engaged in caring for the life of pedestrians, showing that "road safety is a state policy in Argentina" tolerated by all community.
