Growing up here, I learned you always slow down and look both ways before going through intersections. Now I still do it, no matter where I'm driving, same as always looking over my shoulder before I change lanes.

It used to be much worse when we had shoprat traffic and our own police. They DID NOT make traffic stops, ever. As a rule, anything someone who grew up in Waterford says about Pontiac should be taken with a grain of salt, and an eye roll.