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- From: eo@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Emma Osman)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Pavements
- Message-ID: <BxyLLI.FFF@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 10:39:17 GMT
- References: <JC.92Nov19092339@mr-potter-t-crosser-i-dotter.fulcrum.co.uk>
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- In article <JC.92Nov19092339@mr-potter-t-crosser-i-dotter.fulcrum.co.uk> jc@fulcrum.co.uk (John Callingham) writes:
- >Does anyone know the definition of a pavement (the legal one, not the
- >dictionary one). I ask because I was nearly run over this morning by a
- >car crossing the pavement from a drop kerb to enter a drive. I thought
- >I was still on the pavement, but the driver seemed to think that he
- >had priority because he was still on the road.
-
- Standard disclaimer follows: I am not an expert on the road rules in this
- country.
-
- However, when I was learning to drive in Australia, I was taught
- that vehicles *or* pedestrians moving in a straight line always had
- right of way over vehicles turning - thus, for example, a pedestrian
- crossing the street at the top of a T-junction would have precedence over
- a car travelling along the top of the T and wanting to turn down it.
- (as in the diagram)
-
-
- ______________________________
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- Car - - - - - - -
- \
- ----------- \/ ----------
- | |
- Pedestrian - | - - - | - ->
- | |
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-
- So it shouldn't matter whether you were on the "road" or "pavement" -
- you were walking along a right of way where, as a pedestrian, you were
- entitled to be and the turning vehicle should have given way.
-
- Emma
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- | Emma Osman | Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you. |
- | eo@dcs.ed.ac.uk | - Carl Jung |
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