Don’t run over people on the sidewalk
I thought this one would be a given, but appearantly not, drivers must yield to pedestrians that are standing on a sidewalk.
811.025 Failure to yield to pedestrian on sidewalk; penalty.
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(1) The driver of a vehicle commits the offense of failure to yield to a pedestrian on a sidewalk if the driver does not yield the right of way to any pedestrian on a sidewalk.
(2) The offense described in this section, failure to yield to a pedestrian on a sidewalk, is a Class B traffic violation.
[1983 c.338 �547; 1995 c.383 �42]
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- Sidewalk spitting is illegal
- No Assholes on the Highway!
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I’m doing a project on this law in Drivers ed. I live in NewJersey. ((Did you know it’s illegal to eat an orange in the bathtub in California??))
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Josieeee
September 17, 2008
but then how do you get points?
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Stevie Ray
April 18, 2011
Is it okay to just wing ‘em a little?
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Russ Tong
October 10, 2011