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Villages under the wheels. Why Ukrainian highways are deadly for pedestrians

Villages under the wheels. Why Ukrainian highways are deadly for pedestrians
"Where are you rushing off to?! Look, they’re not even stopping!" says Valentyn Hrushetskyi, a resident of Reya, a village located between Zhytomyr and Berdychiv (cities in Ukraine) on highway M-21, commenting on people’s attempts to cross the road. Reya is one of many villages through which intercity and international highways run. In such villages, both adults and children risk their lives every day to get to the store, school, or stadium, either by crossing at an unregulated crosswalk or running straight across the road.