When we're out walking, Ava notices when cars are driving too fast.

She also notices when cars go through red lights, which sadly around here happens way too often.

Her sensitivity has been increased since the accident. By the way, if you're brand new to the podcast, Ava is my wife.

We walk every day, sometimes a couple times a day.

And the accident happened two days after Christmas in 2020.

My wife was going through an intersection, another car, blew through the red light.

We think going about 55 miles an hour,

hit the driver's side door. Ava was severely injured in the hospital for about a week in a wheelchair

for a couple of months. We're still not sure how many bones were broken. I've heard anywhere from

more than a dozen to 20, lots of little bones.

So her sensitivity to what others are doing on the road behind the wheel is heightened in a way that...

I know for me it isn't because I wasn't sitting in that car.

I wasn't the one who glanced to the left just before another driver plowed into me.

So her perspective, of course, is different.

But we're all concerned when we're out walking, we're all concerned about safety, or at least we should be.

And I guess, of course, it depends on where it is you walk.

And for the definition of this episode,

by safety, I'm talking about vehicle pedestrian accidents. There are actually all kinds of ways

that you and I can feel unsafe when we're out from other people, from wildlife, even circumstances like height variability

in a sidewalk where one part of the sidewalk is a little bit higher than the other. That can be

very unsafe. But for this episode, I'm talking about sharing space with vehicles. Welcome to walking is fitness. This is a

podcast of action providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made

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