> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I just wanted to make this one clear to myself and others reading. The law > states: At any crosswalk (marked or unmarked), the operator of a vehicle > shall yield right of way to a pedestrian in a manner which is consistent with > the safe use of the crosswalk by a pedestrian who has started to cross the > highway. In my interpretation of this it doesn't matter if the man was in the > cross walk or not that car should have stopped when they saw him and if they > couldn't stop in time then they were driving to fast or inattentively. Am I > reading the law right. It seems to state anywhere a pedestrian crosses the street > is considered a crosswalk and therefore they have the right of way and if this > is true why do we have those Zebra lines at certain places are they > "recommended" crossing places. Please clear this up for me if you know the answer.
As I understand it, a crosswalk, marked or unmarked, is an extension of a sidewalk as it crosses a street. Therefore it would NOT include just any place in a street, mid-block. The inattentiveness of the driver might still be a factor in this case, but unless the ped was crossing where a street comes in, I don't think any law wrt. crosswalks would apply. --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
