Pedestrians and crosswalk duties

Pedestrians are unpredictable and hard to see, especially at night. Most of them have no accurate sense of how far a vehicle needs to stop, so a gap that looks impossible to you can look fine to them.

At a crosswalk or intersection:

• Never pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk. It is illegal and unsafe — that driver may have stopped to let someone cross, and their vehicle is hiding that person from you.
• Do not enter a crosswalk without checking it is empty, even on a green. Someone may be dashing across, and people who cross slowly — the elderly, people with disabilities, a parent walking with a small child — may still be in it.