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Left vs Right Driving
Jun 03, 2013
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Information here may be outdated?
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sweden also switched in 1967
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interesting in what happened at the exact time it switched.
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Flashback, December 1931: Churchill Nearly Killed in Car Accident He looked the wrong way before crossing the street and was hit by a car.
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Every year in the UK many foreign visitors are killed or injured for the same reason :-(
Many of the more popular tourist areas have signs warning pedestrians to look BOTH ways before crossing.
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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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But is it "Look right, then left, then right again" as Brits were taught, or is it "Look left, then right, then left again?"
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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.
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