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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Yesterday I was driving in the Spanish Springs town square on the way home. At the corner in front of Dunkin Donuts where you can only go either left or right - I was in the left lane to turn with a lady ahead of me. We didn't have a stop sign, and there was no white line to indicate any need to stop, and there's no crosswalk at that spot. No one was walking across the street. A guy was at the curb, waiting for us to pass. She slammed on her brakes in the middle of her turn to the other road - which made me slam on mine - to allow the guy to cross the street. I yelled over that she shouldn't have done that. She yelled back that the law says you have to let people cross.
The answer - in case she's reading this: You have to let pedestrians CONTINUE to cross, once they've already left the curb. You don't have to stop and wait for them to do that, especially if they're not at an actual crosswalk. You held up traffic for a pedestrian who was doing what he knew he was supposed to do. You were wrong. I'm just glad I was paying attention and was able to swerve to the side without hitting you when you came to your abrupt halt.
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Probably same one’s that stop at yield signs entering roundabout when no one coming and blow through 4 way stop when the have traffic on their right that beat them to intersection. For those that don’t know you’re not in line till you stop at 4 way stops
