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This is how it all began -- the terrible civil strife that devastates our world! / Based in material in Ch. 7 -- "First Clashes of the Wheeled and Footed Sects" -- of Vol. 3 of Burger's monumental _History of Traffic_, published by the Foundation for Twenty-Second Century Studies.
The raggedy little old lady with the big shopping bag was in the exact center of the crosswalk when she became aware of the big black car bearing down on her.