{"id":94276,"date":"2020-10-26T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=94276"},"modified":"2020-10-05T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:08:00","slug":"pedestrian-safety-guidelines-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/pedestrian-safety-guidelines-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Safety Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s getting colder and darker earlier at night, it can be more challenging for motorists to see you and for you to see them.\u00a0For everyone&#8217;s safety and well-being, please follow the pedestrian safety guidelines shared here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wear\u00a0reflective\u00a0clothing at night.<\/strong>\u00a0For those walking in the dark, clothes with large\u00a0reflective\u00a0stripes are recommended. Drivers may not see you if you have only one or two small\u00a0reflective\u00a0patches on your clothing. Many backpacks and shoes also use\u00a0reflective\u00a0materials to add visibility.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cross streets only at marked crosswalks or corners, and proceed only when the appropriate \u201cwalk\u201d signal is displayed (if applicable).\u00a0<\/strong>Be sure to push the \u201cwalk\u201d activation buttons where available. At some intersections in the city, \u201cwalk\u201d signals will be displayed ONLY if activation buttons are pushed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Look left, right, and left again\u00a0before entering a crosswalk.\u00a0<\/strong>Even if you have the right of way, check both ways to ensure that motorists see you and have stopped to allow you to cross.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make eye contact with drivers<\/strong>\u00a0whenever possible before crossing the street and watch especially for vehicles that are turning or backing up. Walk quickly and purposefully as you cross streets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do not use headphones, text, or talk on the telephone as you walk.<\/strong>\u00a0You should always be able to hear, see, and quickly respond to what is going on around you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be especially careful to look both ways when wearing a hooded jacket that covers your face and blocks your side vision.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: Public Safety at psafety@owu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s getting colder and darker earlier at night, it can be more challenging for motorists to see you and for you to see them.\u00a0For everyone&#8217;s safety and well-being, please follow the pedestrian safety guidelines shared here: Wear\u00a0reflective\u00a0clothing at night.\u00a0For those walking in the dark, clothes with large\u00a0reflective\u00a0stripes are recommended. Drivers may not see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94277,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94276\/revisions\/94277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}