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- From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- Subject: Re: Pavements
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.143939.8033@city.cs>
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- Organization: City University, London
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 14:39:39 GMT
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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.
-
- Eh? Humans have priority on roads. It was explained in `Car Driving
- in 2 Weeks' by Nathan. You are driving in a car and see a human
- standing in the middle of the road. Are you entitled to run him
- over and kill him? No! QED.
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