LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – With the nice weather, lots of people are out walking on the roads, but this can come with risks.<\/p>\n
Tuesday in the Lehigh Valley there were three separate pedestrian accidents. And now, law enforcement is sounding the alarm on safety.<\/p>\n
“With the warm weather, it’s that time of the year where you’re gonna see more people out on foot on bicycles, e-scooters you name it,” said Sergeant Bryan Losagio, Salisbury Twp. Police Department.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Losagio\u00a0says with more people out and about, more accidents are likely.<\/p>\n
Thousands of pedestrians are killed a year by vehicles on the road.<\/p>\n
He says drivers can do their part by staying alert.<\/p>\n
“Look ahead up the road, scan the roadway for people possibly in the road, crossing the road or at crosswalks. Put the phone down, lower your music a little bit. There’s a lot of crashes caused by distracted driving and those are some of the top contributing factors,” says Sergeant Losagio.<\/p>\n
Staying safe involves the person behind the wheel and the one walking across the street.<\/p>\n
It’s important for people to use crosswalks and sidewalks.<\/p>\n
“It is a state law in Pennsylvania that if there’s an available sidewalk, a pedestrian should be on it instead of walking up and down the street. When you get to an intersection, make eye contact with the driver that way you both have a sense that you saw each other and it may be a little bit safer to cross,” says Sergeant Losagio.<\/p>\n
Whether you’re out for a drive with the windows down or taking a walk after work staying safe is simple, “Pay attention and basically it comes down to common sense you’ll have your best shot at staying safe,” says Sergeant Losagio.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. – With the nice weather, lots of people are out walking on the roads, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,42275,27245,74908,1856,157,22942,294,2410,10496,1017],"class_list":["post-166055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crosswalk","tag-distracted-driving","tag-driver-awareness","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-pedestrian-safety","tag-public-safety","tag-road-safety","tag-sidewalk","tag-traffic-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}