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- Subject: Re: Pavements
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 09:38:20 GMT
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- 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.
- >--
- >John Callingham (jc@fulcrum.co.uk)
-
- The "footway" commonly called the pavement - is the part of the road
- on which vehicles and horses are forbidden to travel, though they are
- permitted to cross. By your description that driveway was crossing
- the footway (but still part of it). No road user has any priority over
- other road users (even if bus and taxi drivers appear to feel differently),
-
- Andy
-