June 6,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The Ridgewood Health Department and the National Safety Council remind you that Injuries are the leading cause of death for Americans ages 1 to 40, but there are many things people can do to stay safe and prevent injuries.
This June, the Ridgewood Health Department encourages you to learn more about important safety issues like preventing poisonings, transportation safety, and slips, trips, and falls.
• Poisonings: Nine out of 10 poisonings happen right at home. You can be poisoned by many things, like cleaning products or another person’s medicine.
• Transportation safety: Doing other activities while driving – like texting or eating – distracts you and increases your chance of crashing. Almost 1 in 6 crashes (15%) where someone is injured involves distracted driving.
• Slips, trips, and falls: One in 4 older adults falls each year. Many falls lead to broken bones or a head injury.
Be prepared and learn basic steps to protect your child.
• Use a car seat, booster seat, or seat belt that’s right for your child’s size and age – on every trip.
• Teach your child to swim, and closely watch your child in or near water.
• Keep medicines, vitamins, and cleaning products where your child can’t see or reach them.
• Use smoke alarms. Make and practice a fire escape plan for your home.
• Make sure your child wears the right safety gear (like a helmet or pads) when playing sports or doing other physical activity.
• Create a safe sleeping area for your baby. Keep soft objects (like pillows, blankets, crib bumpers, or toys) out of the crib. Always put babies to sleep on their back.
Riding bikes is a great way to get active. Use these tips to stay alert and safe. Paying attention to the things around you can help you stay safe.
• Look for potholes, rocks, wet leaves, or anything that could make you fall.
• Be aware of cars that are parking or backing up.
• Listen for traffic and other activity around you. Don’t wear headphones when you ride.
• Try not to ride in bad weather – but if you must, go slowly.
Safety tip: Add the poison control number (1-800-222-1222) to your cell phone.
Staying safe at work is very important. If you don’t work in a safe way, you can get hurt or become sick. The good news is that there are things you can do – both at work and at home – to lower your chances of getting hurt.
Take these steps to prevent injuries at work:
• Lift things safely (use your legs if possible).
• Arrange your work area to fit your body.
• Take short breaks and stretch.
• Wear your protective equipment.
• Ask about available health resources at work.
• Ask questions when you need to.
Your overall health can also affect how you feel and perform at work. To be able to work safely, it’s important for you to:
• Get enough sleep.
• Eat a healthy diet.
• Stay active.
• Manage your weight.
• Take steps to manage stress.
Good let’s teach our kids not just to walk into the street without looking both ways. Because it’s amazing every day I see all ages walk right into the street without looking with the head down looking at their cell phone. I don’t know who is teaching them this but it’s amazing, and then they wonder why they get hit, it’s not always the drivers fault.
wouldn’t it rightly be “National Safety Month” in the whole nation, rather than just in Ridgewood?
Good excuse to restore both lanes in each direction under the train tracks.
Motorists stopping in the middle of the road and condescendingly attempting to give up their right-of-way to other motorists are creating unsafe conditions every day all over town. Does it ever occur to them that their unsolicited and unnecessary virtue signaling could get some one else hurt?
The chief of police in the village of Ridgewood needs to contact New Jersey transit at once why you asked, because they need to slow down in the CBD they drive like Nut jobs. Way too fast cutting people off driving on the other side of the lanes right towards other people driving at them . They are out of control.
“Motorists stopping in the middle of the road and condescendingly attempting to give up their right-of-way to other motorists are creating unsafe conditions every day all over town. Does it ever occur to them that their unsolicited and unnecessary virtue signaling could get some one else hurt?”
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SO TRUE.
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These people are a menace.
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The roads would be much safer if everyone just stuck to the law and followed the rules of the road, rather than making up their own rules according to whatever they feel is the “good” or “nice” thing to do.
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Yes that is true of times.
Thanks 8:09pm. Was starting to think I was in a weird remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, feeling more and more alone, vastly outnumbered by virtue-signaling pod-people trying to introduce some kind of upside-down bizarro-world version of the time-tested Rules of the Road. -6:08pm
…and the best part about encountering these “virtue signaling” motorists is the disdain they exhibit to you when you DO follow the rules of the road (for example by yielding to THEIR right of way).
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Oh, mo’ demly, 8:42am! At those times those who follow the ACTUAL rules of the road are made out to be enemies of society (just ask the people driving the cars stacking up in traffic). Even nearby police on foot or in patrol vehicles will “suggest” complying with the upside-down wishes of virtue-signaling motorist. This must be how soft-headed groupthink takes over a culture. -6:08pm
What are you people talking about???
10:34am: This should break it down for you.
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Motorist #1, an unwitting potential victim, is idling in Kings parking lot (Midland Park Shopping Center) in Midland Park. He is stopped, facing out of the lot, first in line to exit onto busy Godwin Avenue with his blinker on, indicating a desire to turm left onto the far lane nearest the curb on the northbound side of Godwin Avenue in order to proceed north through the nearby intersection with Goffle Road and up the hill into the Midland Park business district.
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Motorist #2, a virtue-signaling pod-person, is travelling north on Godwin Avenue from Ridgewood intending to slow down and take a left hand turn into the Kings parking lot. Accordingly, he switches his left hand turn signal on, and begins to sidle over into the very left hand turn lane in the center of the road that exists at that spot on Godwin Avenue to facilitate that kind of turn, and that also extends northward therefrom to the traffic light with Goffle Road where motorists may safely use it to accomplish left hand turns onto Goffle Road to head west toward Hawthorne.
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Motorist #3, another potential unsuspecting victim, is directly behind virtue-signaling pod-person Motorist #2 on Godwin Avenue and does NOT intend to turn left into the Kings parking lot, but instead intends to proceed PAST Kings in order to turn left onto Goffle Road and head west into Hawthorne.
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At this time, NO vehicles are heading south on Godwin Avenue from the vicinity of the Goffle Road traffic light, past Kings parking lot, and toward Ridgewood. The southbound lane is therefore clear. No cars at all on that side of the road.
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Virtue-signaling pod-person Motorist #2 has the right of way to keep moving in front of, and slightly past, unwitting victim Motorist #1 and to turn left at a reasonable and predictable speed and into the Kings parking lot. Instead, unpredictabLe virtue-signaling pod person Motorist #2 unaccountably applies the vehicle’s brakes and comes to a complete stop in the middle of the road, left-hand-turn signal blinking, but well short of the point of the location necessary to accomplish the left-hand turn into the Kings parking lot. Motorist #2 is now in full virtue-signaling mode, implicitly telling unwitting victim Motorist #1 to take Motorist #2’s right-of-way, and make Motorist #1’s desired left hand turn onto Godwin Avenue in order to head north toward the Midland Park Business District.
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Meanwhile, surprised at virtue-signaling pod person Motorist #2’s unexpected decision to stop dead in the middle of the road, unwitting victim Motorist #3 avoids the need to use his brakes, and manages to maintain his speed, by turning slightly to his right, and then quickly to his left in a zig-zag fashion. In this way, he avoids rear-ending virtue-signaling pod-person Motorist #2 and changes into the rightmost lane, thereby allowing him to continue moving northbound with no need to slow down at all. Unsuspecting victim Motorist #3 figures, once he gets around unpredictable virtue-signaling pod person Motorist #2, he will change back into the center lane, no harm, no foul.
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Unbeknownst to unsuspecting victim Motorist #3, however, unsuspecting victim Motorist #1 has absentmindedly taken virtue-signaling pod-person Motorist #2 up on that Motorist #2’s deranged invitation to take Motorist #2’s right-of-way. Unsuspecting victim Motorist #1 hits the gas, pulls out of the Kings parking lot, and makes a beeline towards the northbound lane on the far side of Godwin Avenue.
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Unsuspecting victim Motorists #1 and #3 don’t even see each other. They collide at speed without either having the time to hit their brakes.
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Virtue-signaling pod-person Motorist #2, late for the Pride Flag raising at Ridgewood High School, decides not to wait around for the police, or to see if anyone was hurt in the accident, but instead promptly pulls into the Kings parking lot, grabs a Grande Latte Macchiatto at Starbucks, and quietly motors out of the Kings parking lot, past five patrol cars, a fire truck, and an ambulance, and right back into the ‘Wood.
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Aread you with us now? Do you see the problem? Hello–McFly!?!?