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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re:Those funny white lines
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 02:27:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 02:27:09 1984
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>    Someone mentioned that those solid white lines are good for something.
> When a pedestrian who gets hit by a car while crossing between them
> then it is the drivers fault.

(minor flame: you call that last sentence English?)
Recently I read in the San Jose Mercury News that a woman crossing
the street against the DONT WALK light was hit and killed by a left
turning car. The driver was not cited. The pedestrian was in the
crosswalk but the light was against her. So much for assigning
fault to the driver.

I have also read of pedestrians being run over on the freeway.
The driver never gets cited; it's open season on anyone unfortunate
enough to be on foot on the freeway (suppose you ran out of gas).

These incidents happened in California, your laws may vary.
-- 
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