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(Milliyet Newspaper, 18 March 2019)
Walk at your own risk.
The Turkish Interior Ministry declared that 2019 would be the
"traffic year with priority for pedestrians" in order to emphasize
that drivers should yeild to pedestrians at crosswalks. Strict
measures were introduced to make this point, including fines for
drivers who do not give pedestrians the right of way.
Unfortunately (!), a regrettable example of this problem was
seen the day before yesterday on world-famous İstiklal Caddesi
(İstiklal Avenue) in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. The avenue is closed to
vehicular traffic but cars can cross at certain side street intersections.
At around 1430 in the afternoon, a tourist from Thailand was walking
on İstiklal toward Taksim Square with her family after they had done
some shopping. At Zambak Street, one of the crossover side streets,
a taxi hit the Thai woman and her foot became stuck under the taxi.
Passers-by came to her aid and her foot was freed once the taxi backed
up. Police and health unit workers arrived to treat the Thai tourist
and she was taken on a stretcher to a hospital. The taxi driver was
brought to the police station to give a statement.
Defies translation into Turkish.
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