Who are the vehicles in your neighborhood?

So my two eldest sons have these cool boards that ride on just two wheels and they move by motioning their hips back and forth.  The center of the two platforms are held together by a slightly rotational bar...

They ride the sidewalks where we have them in town, as per my request to stay out of the road. So onward...

The DS2 was riding this contraption a few weeks ago and the neighbor on the opposing corner almost ran him over.  He was on the sidewalk and riding to the corner, his brother was across the street riding, a race but not really kinda thing.  As DS2 was getting to the corner he had to slow down, which was a very good thing!

The neighbor was paying attention to the boy that was across the street, but not his OWN road... SO he started to pull out INTO my son.  He didn't get hurt, only because DS2 was paying attention and lept out of the way!!!

So fast forward to today and the boys wanted to go to the corner to get batteries for the controller.  I send them off with a ten and don't think anything of it.  These are 14 and 13 yr old boys that are going TWO BLOCKS AWAY on a SIDEWALK!

DS2 says that his brother was stopped at the corner and he was about 2 or 3 feet away and the car that DS1 was waiting for had waved DS1 on, so DS2 is right on his heels... Well the chick was watching DS1 and not paying any attention to the road in front of her and DS2 has to JUMP AWAY or get hit!  Like center of the CAR right in the middle of the grill, you can't miss him, hit him.  She apologizes and feels bad, rightly so.  The child that she has in the car is freaking out that she hit the boy from her school.  DS2 assures them that she did not hit him, because he GOT OUT OF THE WAY.

Why do people feel the need to look at something going down the road and not pay attention to where they are going when they are crossing an intersection or backing out!  Come on people!  This is a small town, one where there are not many sidewalks and most of the children are in the road, how can my son almost get hit TWICE?

Once on the sidewalk and once after being waved on with his brother?!