Neville Wrote:
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> Steamroller, thank you for reminding us that there
> are drivers who are ignorant of Virginia laws and
> who don’t mind appearing stupid on the Internet
> because they can’t do a simple search.
> According to Virginia law, a bicycle rider at a
> crosswalk can walk his bicycle across OR he can
> ride it across, unless prohibited by official
> traffic control devices. He almost certainly had
> right of way in and at that crosswalk (traffic
> lights permitting).
>
>
>
> § 46.2-904. Use of roller skates and skateboards
> on sidewalks and shared-use paths; operation of
> bicycles, electric power-assisted bicycles, and
> electric personal assistive mobility devices on
> sidewalks and crosswalks and shared-use paths;
> local ordinances.
>
> A person riding a bicycle, electric personal
> assistive mobility device, or an electric
> powerassisted bicycle on a sidewalk, shared-use
> path, or across a roadway on a crosswalk, shall
> have all the rights and duties of a pedestrian
> under the same circumstances.
>
>
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+co
> d+46.2-904
>
>
>
> § 46.2-924. Drivers to stop for pedestrians;
> installation of certain signs; penalty.
>
> A. The driver of any vehicle on a highway shall
> yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian crossing
> such highway:
>
> 1. At any clearly marked crosswalk, whether at
> mid-block or at the end of any block;
> 2. At any regular pedestrian crossing included in
> the prolongation of the lateral boundary lines of
> the adjacent sidewalk at the end of a block;
> 3. At any intersection when the driver is
> approaching on a highway or street where the legal
> maximum speed does not exceed 35 miles per hour.
>
> B. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A
> of this section, at intersections or crosswalks
> where the movement of traffic is being regulated
> by law-enforcement officers or traffic control
> devices, the driver shall yield according to the
> direction of the law-enforcement officer or
> device.
>
> No pedestrian shall enter or cross an intersection
> in disregard of approaching traffic.
>
> The drivers of vehicles entering, crossing, or
> turning at intersections shall change their
> course, slow down, or stop if necessary to permit
> pedestrians to cross such intersections safely and
> expeditiously.
>
> Pedestrians crossing highways at intersections
> shall at all times have the right-of-way over
> vehicles making turns into the highways being
> crossed by the pedestrians.
>
>
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+co
> d+46.2-924
>
>
>
> My opinion and your opinion are not really
> valuable to this discussion. I would instead look
> to what some dead white men wrote.
>
> At a crosswalk Virginia courts have held “the
> pedestrian has a superior right -- that is, the
> right to cross from one side of the street to the
> other in preference or priority over vehicles --
> and drivers of vehicles must respect this right
> and yield the right of way to the pedestrian. The
> pedestrian's right of way extends from one side of
> the street to the other. It does not begin at any
> particular point in the intersection nor does it
> end at any particular point. It begins on one side
> of the street and extends until the pedestrian has
> negotiated the crossing.” (Marshall v. Shaw.
> Supreme Court of Virginia, 1955) (
>
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=247641
> 7758289562501&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
> )
>
> "The duty of a motor vehicle driver on approaching
> an intersection is to keep a vigilant lookout for
> pedestrians between curbs on the traveled portion
> of the highway, and when pedestrians are
> negotiating the crossing, or about to step from
> the side into traffic lanes, to operate his car at
> such speed and under such control that he can
> readily turn one way or the other, and, if
> necessary, bring his machine to a stop in time to
> avoid injury to pedestrians." (Sawyer v.
> Blankenship, Supreme Court of Virginia, 1933) (
>
http://va.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.asp
> x/xq/fac.19330615_0040113.VA.htm/qx )
Wrong. On the W&OD trail at Ayr Hill, there is a Stop sign - not on Ayr HIll, but on the trail. He obviously ran it.