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- From: paulr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Paul Russell)
- Subject: Re: Pavements
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.155326.18375@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
- References: <1992Nov19.143939.8033@city.cs>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:53:26 GMT
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- From article <1992Nov19.143939.8033@city.cs>, by lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun):
- > 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.
- >
-
- It _used_ to be in the Highway Code - rule 47 I think - pedestrians
- crossing at junctions have right of way. Last time I looked it was
- no longer there, so presumably cars have become more important than
- pedestrians in the Thatcher Years...
-
- //Paul
-
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