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The danger comes from having them, not from not having them. Like most safety precautions the result of their use is counter intuitive. In this case pedestrians "know" drivers will stop to allow them to cross safely at the zebra crossing. As a result they give up the proper pre crossing habits of looking both ways and evaluating the hazard. instead they blindly walk into traffic without pausing. Drivers who are too close to stop collide with the pedestrians.

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