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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: crosswalks
Message-ID: <2152@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 08:21:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 16 08:21:12 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

Out here in California the law is that pedestrians ALWAYS have absolute
right of way, even when jaywalking.  (This is a fine point of the law
most tourists and immigrants don't realize until they have to read up
on it to get their first California driver's license.  Myself, I think a
summary of California driving laws should be available at the borders and
at airports.  And maybe a similar summary for non-drivers explaining that
California cops often arrest people for jaywalking (with the law above,
it really interferes with traffic) but that there are many invisible
crosswalks.)  Invisible crosswalks?  There's one at every corner or
T-intersection.  You're not jaywalking when you cross at one.

By the way, I was once told that there's a NY law giving a driver making
a right turn with the signal the right of way over a pedestrian crossing
with the same signal.  Is this true?

--Lee Gold