Originally Posted by
cplager
Interesting link. That was prety much my intuition, that a flashing strobe will catch a drivers attention much the way movement would. In this particular situation, we we waiting for the green light for over a minute, in the crosswalk, and the woman in the car that nearly hit us was the first car on the other side of road, also waiting for the light. So even though there was plenty of TIME for the driver to see us, there was no motion to catch her attention.
I've since come to the conclusion, based on this and many other incidents, that a crosswalk is about the most dangerous place to be - for pedestrians as well as cyclists.