In a few parts of America, and maybe Canada since that's pretty much the same place, at any big busy intersection, you pull out into traffic against a red signal if you are turning right. If the walking light is flashing this means you are driving right into a crosswalk, close as you can be to the curb, and because there is cross traffic you necessarily must be looking away from the curb, to check if you can get out. You could not design a more dangerous interaction between car and person if you were trying, and this is like pretty much every intersection you walk through, almost every single time you cross the street possibly. There is no noticable benefit to drivers besides maybe less congestion, the amount of time and gas it saves are negligible on an individual level.

Anyway I just got hit by a car for this rule. My friend has a traumatic brain injury from this rule. If you walk a lot or bike you are taking your life into your hands in this, the country where vastly more people die to cars than anywhere else, inside them or no, how much due to this rule I cannot say, but it feels like a big part of it to me