The other question that I wanted to add is whether or not a driver has> any legal defense for hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk on a walk> signal in my situation.

In article <27fh51l91s7anlevrm­gndj9cte5goo8o8l@4ax­.com>,>Your grammar needs improvement. Questions end in a question mark.

Here's an incident I was in as the pedestrian (more than once):>

Busy intersection. There's a crosswalk. The walk signal turns white>(all lights are red at this point for a split-second). I get 2-4>steps into crosswalk. After a split-second, the oncoming cars still>have the red, however, cars turning right and left into my lane have>the green.>

Since I was already in the crosswalk, I believe the car turning right>into me has to stop.

Even if we arrived at the crosswalk at the same>time, I believe a right turner on a green light still has to yield to>the pedestrian.

I was nearly hit by the right turner on green. He must have thought>that since he had a green light and was turning right that he didn't>have to yield to a pedestrian just entering the crosswalk since I>shouldn't have been there. Any comments?

"Tim923" <t923_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message >news:27fh51l91s7an­levrmgndj9cte5goo8o8­l@4ax.com...>> The other question that I wanted to add is whether or not a driver has>> any legal defense for hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk on a walk>> signal in my situation.>

Once you're in a crosswalk with the light, you have the right of way. The >driver has to yield; it's the law.>

The timer at that intersection is off if you have the signal only a few >seconds. A call to the traffic division of city hall should take care of >that.

Your grammar needs improvement. Questions end in a question mark. But >yes, a driver sure would have liability if he hits a pedestrian who is >walking in an intersection if the pedestrian has the right of way, and >possibly even if the pedestrian didn't have the right of way.

This is off topic, but you got me thinking, can't questions be asked>indirectly in the form of a statement

If I had changed the word "question" to "item" above, would that have>been the quick fix?

Here's an incident I was in as the pedestrian (more than once):

I was nearly hit by the right turner on green. He must have thought> that since he had a green light and was turning right that he didn't> have to yield to a pedestrian just entering the crosswalk since I> shouldn't have been there. Any comments? Perhaps it is a poorly> designed crosswalk device that doesn't add a few precious moments of> delay to all red lights just to allow the pedestrian an uncontested> jog across the intersection. Comments.

I will never walk that intersection again since I've had a few scares.