Editor’s note: The following letter is in response to Eileen Murphy’s October 24 letter about the fatal accident on Clarksville Road last month.
I don’t know the facts at all, but maybe your reader is jumping to dangerous conclusions as judge and jury here. Any death is a tragedy, but a word of caution to the entitled pedestrian class, pedestrian rights, and especially exercised at open road unmarked highway crossings: you cross at your own peril. If it’s not at a traffic light crosswalk then you have no rights, you simply need to wait until some kind-hearted motorist chooses to stop and let you cross, or the road is clear. I have seen pedestrians almost dare cars to run them over as they exercise their mistaken “rights.” Also, let’s not forget the mess that New York City has with its self-entitled cyclists. Put yourself in the drivers seat and see how you would feel if you were “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” before fault was properly established by a real judge and jury.
Dennis Buchert
Plainsboro
