appreciation

With all of the pedestrian accidents and fatalities that have occured so far in this year, I've really learned to appreciate my life and the life of many others much more. After reading this article and hearing about the numerous pedestrian accidents on the news, I felt a very heart-wrenching feeling for the victims and their families. Most of these pedestrian accidents and fatalities involve elderly vic†ims and it is just an extremely terrible thing to happen. Some of these people get hit because they are jaywalking. But others get hit by speeding cars while crossing in a crosswalk. All of these victims and their families do not expect that their lives would end the way they did. This is what hurts the most, and what makes me deeply saddened.
On one news report, reporters interviewed an elderly chinese person in chinatown who had jaywalked. The reporters asked her why she jaywalked and if she even knew that she jaywalked, and her reply was a confused " I can't talk English". She probably didn't even know what jay walking was. That old lady reminded me of my grandmother. My grandmother often goes to Chinatown to buy groceries and she probably jay walks sometimes. The recent pedestrian accidents make me even more concerned for my grandmother, but hopefully by the passing of the stricter pedestrian laws, unfortunate accidents can be put to a stop.