Bill Text: VA SB228 | 2010 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Pedestrians crossing highways; duties of vehicles to stop to allow at marked crosswalks.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-14 - House: Left in Transportation [SB228 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2010-SB228-Prefiled.html
10100941D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That § 46.2-924 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §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 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. The driver of any vehicle on a highway shall stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian to cross a highway within a marked crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon or within one-half of the highway on which the vehicle is traveling where the legal maximum speed does not exceed 35 miles per hour. C. Notwithstanding
the provisions of 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.
E. For purposes of this section: "Marked crosswalk" means any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the highway surface. "One-half of the highway" means all traffic lanes carrying traffic in one direction of travel and includes the entire width of a one-way highway. |