Left vs Right Driving

[Metspitzer]

[chaniarts]

sweden also switched in 1967

interesting in what happened at the exact time it switched.

[Metspitzer]

Flashback, December 1931: Churchill Nearly Killed in Car Accident He looked the wrong way before crossing the street and was hit by a car.

[Retired]

Every year in the UK many foreign visitors are killed or injured for the same reason :-(

[hrhofmann]

Many of the more popular tourist areas have signs warning pedestrians to look BOTH ways before crossing.

[Kuskokwim]

[DerbyDad03]

Where in the world would you *not* look both ways before crossing a street? That's just common sense.

Perhaps you are refering to the signs that remind tourists (and others) to look right:

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[Percival P. Cassidy]

But is it "Look right, then left, then right again" as Brits were taught, or is it "Look left, then right, then left again?"

I think that crosswalks such as the one shown -- essentially two separate crosswalks with a central "pedestrian refuge" -- may be more common in UK cities than in US ones.

Perce