Questão de Língua Portuguesa

01. Beware. There is a new danger on the 02. streets. And you might not spot it until it’s too 03. late. 04. Pedestrians wearing iPod or MP3 music 05. player headphones have a habit of stepping 06. out into the road, oblivious to traffic. 07. ‘Podestrians’, as they have been called, now account for nearly one in ten minor 08. 09. accidents involving sudden braking and shunts, according to ........ from an insurance 10. 11. company. Well over half of the ........ are described 12. 13. as young people, teenagers or children. 14. ‘We have seen a significant increase in 15. drivers citing such individuals as having been a factor in accidents,’ a spokesman for the 16. 17. company said. 18. The most common ........ involves a 19. ‘podestrian’ stepping into the road without 20. looking properly and failing to hear an 21. oncoming vehicle. 22. This can force the driver to brake 23. suddenly, risking collision with the car behind. 24. And if a head full of music isn’t bad enough, some podestrians are talking on their 25. 26. mobile phones at the same time. 27. 'The problem of music players masking 28. the noise of cars can often be compounded 29. by the simultaneous use of mobile phones,’ 30. the spokesman said. 31. ‘People have enjoyed listening to music on 32. foot ever since the first Walkmans were 33. introduced in the late 1970s. But 30 years on 34. there seems to be a rising number of 35. pedestrians who are isolated from traffic 36. noise.’ Adaptado de: Daily Mail, 8 out. 2008.