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Sharing the Roads: Session 3 - Understanding Pedestrians, Bicycles, and Emergency Vehicles

This session focuses on sharing the roads safely with various road users including pedestrians, bicycles, motorcycles, buses, heavy trucks, and emergency vehicles. Learn about critical rules such as stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks and understanding the visibility concerns of motorcycles. Understand the legal requirements for cyclists in Georgia, and the procedures when encountering school buses. We’ll cover practical tips for sharing the road effectively, managing space with larger vehicles, and recognizing the importance of emergency vehicle protocols.

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Sharing the Roads: Session 3 - Understanding Pedestrians, Bicycles, and Emergency Vehicles

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  1. Sharing the Roads Session 3

  2. Who else… • Pedestrians • Bicycles • Motorcycles • Buses • Heavy Trucks • Emergency Vehicles

  3. Pedestrians • Drivers must stop for pedestrian in crosswalk • Remain stopped until Pedestrian crossed centerline • Do not Block a Crosswalk • Always remain alert

  4. Where are they hiding • U turns • Intersections, • cars stopped in a travel lane • Exiting or Entering Driveways

  5. Bicycles… • Legal Vehicle in Georgia • Yield Just like another vehicle • Make sure cyclist is aware of your presence • Make eye contact if possible • Extra Care at night

  6. What for hand signals

  7. Motorcycles can be .. • Difficult to see • Appear farther away • Appear to moving slower • Venerable • Less safe than a car

  8. So Please…

  9. School Buses… Most drivers are required to stop ;... approaching or meeting A stopped school bus with • warning lights out • loading or unloading

  10. except Highways separated by a median: only those vehicles traveling alongside or behind must stop

  11. Violators • Mandatory Court appearance • Up to $1000 Fine • Up to 6 Points • Under 21 = suspension

  12. Commercial vehicles Tractor trailers • Up to *80,0000 Lbs. *GVWR • Hazardous materials Possibly more with special permits

  13. larger blind spots

  14. Practical Tips • Longer intervals • Don’t Tailgate • Don’t cut trucks off in traffic • Don’t Speed • Managing your space allows space for the larger trucks

  15. Emergency vehicles • Official business • Follow no closer than 200 ft. • Remain 500ft from a fire truck responding to an alarm

  16. Take 10 …

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