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"Having started to cross they have priority over traffic" - Not true and potentially dangerous misinformation. Jaywalking controls are stupid because: 1. They
by cja 8y ago
"Having started to cross they have priority over traffic"
- Not true and potentially dangerous misinformation.
Jaywalking controls are stupid because:
1. They restrict the freedom of pedestrians.
2. They encourage extra pedestrian crossings, which increases the number of hazards to drivers.
3. They move responsibility for pedestrian safety from pedestrians to drivers.
As a Briton, it always feels like living in some authoritarian, ultra-controlled future to be at a roadside in another country, with no cars within range, and not to be allowed to walk across to the other side.
- DanBC 8y ago> "Having started to cross they have priority over traffic" - Not true and potentially dangerous misinformation. It is true at junctions. Rule 170. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-159-to-203 https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-... > 3. Road junctions > 170. Take extra care at junctions. You should [...] > Watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way
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- NeedMoreTea 8y agoAlso more generally. See Road users requiring extra care, Pedestrians (205 to 210). The onus is on both to take adequate care, and on drivers to stop in time. The presumption of fault is on the driver. Which is not the same as saying pedestrians have free reign to leap into the path of oncoming vehicles, anywhere they like, expecting traffic to stop on a sixpence. Even though that sometimes seems the done thing in London. After all, pedestrians are expected to only cross when it's safe to do so. So I'm not quite sure what the GP is getting at, except it's often unwise trying to provide a few sentence summary of anything lengthy on HN. :)