Editor:
For those of you drivers that may have forgotten the crosswalk and pedestrians law, here it is for a refresher. Twice in one day my husband and I were crossing Main Street ( Hwy. 20), at a crosswalk, with cars a good block away. Yet, when the cars got to where we were crossing … they kept going. We had to stop or we would have been hit.
I am still recovering from a knee replacement so I do not move too fast yet, but one driver even yelled out the window to “hurry up!” Come on people, let’s be safe.
Oregon Revised Statute 811.028, entitled “Failure to Stop and Remain Stopped for Pedestrian,” reads as follows:
(1) The driver of a vehicle commits the offense of failure to stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian if the driver does not stop and remain stopped for a pedestrian when the pedestrian is:
(a) Proceeding in accordance with a traffic control device as provided under ORS 814.010 (Appropriate responses to traffic control devices) or crossing the roadway in a crosswalk, as defined in ORS 801.220 (“Crosswalk”); and
(b) In any of the following locations:
(A) In the lane in which the driver’s vehicle is traveling;
(B) In a lane adjacent to the lane in which the driver’s vehicle is traveling;
(C) In the lane into which the driver’s vehicle is turning;
(D) In a lane adjacent to the lane into which the driver’s vehicle is turning, if the driver is making a turn at an intersection that does not have a traffic control device under which a pedestrian may proceed as provided under ORS 814.010 (Appropriate responses to traffic control devices); or
(E) Less than six feet from the lane into which the driver’s vehicle is turning, if the driver is making a turn at an intersection that has a traffic control device under which a pedestrian may proceed as provided under ORS 814.010 (Appropriate responses to traffic control devices).
Larry and Nancy Patton
Sweet Home