Not a joke, my friend got a knocked out point blank by a car on a road that supposes to be one way street in front of his university. Apparently during the time of the accident the one way road became two way road due to the constructions work. He survived the gruesome accident but still living in pain intermittently for example if sitting too long due to his permanent spine injury.
True in NYC too. I almost gotten taken out by a cop car driving the wrong way down a narrow one-way street, of all things. It wasn't even running its siren!