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Have attached a quick sketch i did of how everything was placed as this happened. The pedestrian was trying to cross the road a good 10-15ft away from the wide yellow lines. She was however within the confines of the zebra line.
I was on the right lane 2nd lane on a 4 lane stretch approaching a roundabout. Was doing about 40-50kmh at the time and the distance was too short for me to make a rapid stop without making a scene. My tyres give out a loud screech on rapid deceleration and that tend to scare the crap out of many people.
To make a long story short...when i was pulled over, i argued with the police officer cos afaik you only have to stop if somebody is actually on the pedestrian crossing itself and not around the periphery.
From what i know..the zebra line is to indicate it's a danger zone and you should be careful and most importantly not overtake within that distance. The wide yellow bars are for people to cross and the moment somebody gets there, you should stop and give way.
Ya it is crap. Maybe the cop would have tried to use the same principal of parking near a crossing, i.e. no parking within 15mtrs of the zig zag area, therefore the entire area should be considered as a crossing? The traffic laws work out in funny ways in this place we call home. For example if you hit a pedestrian regardless of them being on a crossing or not, its your fault. So your damned either way.
Until a pedestrian gets on to the main road by keeping a lag (keeps his or hers) pedestrians intention is to cross the road as long as the pedestrian keeps the leg on to the road you have to stop your car allow the pedestrian cross the road safely.
Machan just keep a voice recorder in your car. That's what I do. When ever I get pulled over I just pull it out and start recording before saying a single word. Usually they ask what I'm doing so I tell them I'm recording the whole conversation for my safety. It scares them away most of the time.
My boss has one of those. But it'll be limited utility, unless you either stay in the car and swivel the video cam, or converse in front of the car where the video will see you. Tho even money the audio won't pick you up then. In my boss's case, it was a van, so windshield mount means right there.
I would have stopped had she crossed on the actual crossing. Also i wasn't sure that she was gonna cross there cos the bloody crossing was just 10ft away and even with a cop being there, she took the chance of not using it. And not surprisingly the cop let the lady go and i got booked!
Actually thats not a bad idea at all, if you can get it to start recording when the car starts and stop when the car stops it wouldn't be much of a hassle anyway. The only problem would be that you would have to delete old footage from time to time which can be a bit of a hassle i guess
dear you have to pay the fine as here any person crossing eitherside of that yellow lines (15m both sides) includes the crossing and we should stop the vehicle this happened to me sometime ago and Paliyagoda City traffic guy explained the rules
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