Alison:
My biggest fear in Moscow is getting hit by an aggressive driver while I'm walking to school with Sasha. The drivers frequently ignore crosswalks and sometimes even speed up.
Today's Moscow Times has an article on two pedestrians being mowed down in crosswalks. Roman Zhirov, an employee of the Interior Ministry, pulled into the lane of oncoming traffic to pass a car that had stopped at the crosswalk to let a pregnant woman pass. After Zhirov struck the woman, he raced away, but eyewitnesses wrote down his license plate number. He was never prosecuted despite leaving the scene of the crime.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1016/42/377460.htm
BTW, the fine for driving through a crosswalk in Moscow and cutting off a pedestrian? 100 rubles or about $3. That's about to change to 1,000 rubles or $30.
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