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Originally Posted by madrasahs
...[snip] "The sight of glowing green deer would bring drivers to a screeching halt, avoiding accidents."
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Green glowing deer are OK as long as they don't claim to be temporary replacements for a red glowing critter from the North Pole. These green deer are not aliens (are they?). Now that I think about it, green glowing deer might just send a few of my boating buddies to a rehab center for detox. Wonder how many years before we start seeing them.
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Originally Posted by Skipper of the Sea Que
... [snip] Then they can make a whole new batch of expensive signs and we'll all know what to do (except for the illiterate moose and deer). Yield, Stop, Drive, Cross and etc.. What would we do without those signs?
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There is a difference Skipper.
Yield to pedestrians in crosswalk means that you need only concern yourself with avoiding a pedestrian collision. They can be walking in another part of the crosswalk and you can still drive past. As long as you yield to them if they are close or ready to cross your path. If they are starting to walk in a crosswalk from the opposite side of the street and you have no collision course with the pedestrians then you can keep driving. The test is that you only need to yield when there is an option. That's the NH law.
Stop for pedestrians in crosswalk means you have to stop your vehicle no matter where the pedestrian is in the crosswalk. That'snot the NH law
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To think that some of you thought I was only a "jester" and had no depth
Maybe Skip can quote the appropriate RSAs. or has a different view. By the way, what happens at an intersection with traffic lights when pedestrians use the crosswalk against the light? We still need to yield to them in the crosswalk even though we have a green light, right? What if there is a NO WALK sign in synch with the traffic light and they still walk?
If people are on the sidewalk waiting to cross then they are not in the crosswalk and you need not stop or yield to them. As soon as they start to use the crosswalk you must yield to them. The power of the pedestrian. Maybe this is worth a multi million dollar government study, unless one or more have already been done
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FWIW (for what it's worth), I yield to almost anything, everybody (vehicularly speaking) and every vehicle around and on the lakes.