Unfortunately a new story from this week.

crossing at the grand pineapple an oncoming car was slowing down so my son assumed it was safe ,and it did look so until some idiot on the rice rocket with no head light cranked around the car just as he stepped into the street,lucky I had not had too much as this point and was able to yank him back out of the way.

Lessons learned:

If the resort provides crossing guards use them
Never assume the road is safe( its also really hard to adjust your thinking on which way the cars are coming form)

All these things are probably second nature for the more seasoned Negril travelers, but if your doing research on going there don't get complacent as it almost totally screwed me!