Stopping at zebra crossings

Cerco

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Out of curiosity, which Act or SI means that pedestrians have to place a foot out at a zebra crossing?

The closest I could find is an SI from 1964 and it doesn't mention it...
S.I. No. 294/1964 - Road Traffic General Bye-Laws, 1964.


http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1964/si/294/made/en/print

You have answered your own question. “On the crossing”.
To be on the crossing you must at least have a foot on it.

Marcusm

Stoner wrote: »

No the poster is correct. A pedestrian is to signal that they are going to use the zevra crossing by putting one foot out and waiting for cars to stop.

Do you want to give a citation for that? It’s not required under the relevant regs made under RTA.

pablo128

Crock Rock wrote: »

I have two, one facing forwards and one back.


I didn't report it, nor will I.



I expect nothing to come of it, no point so.

I was in a road rage incident a couple of months ago. A guy cut into my lane and immediately slammed on the brakes. I beeped, he drove on and brake tested me a couple of times and then made a wanker sign out of his open drivers window.

He bottled it at the next red light, though. I can tell you that his door was locked and his window fully up and he didn't seem as keen to engage with me. That's all I'll say.

The Gardai arrived at the door the following evening. I wasn't there but I spoke to the Garda on the phone and gave my version of events. She told me not to worry about it as it was my word against his.

But.... she perked up a bit when I told her I caught the whole thing on my dashcam. I told her if she wanted, I had no problem showing her the footage. By her tone, I gathered the other lad had given a different account of what happened. She did say she would be ringing him back.

Having said that, I never heard any more about it. But it might still be worth reporting him to cool his jets a bit.

punisher5112

pablo128 wrote: »

I was in a road rage incident a couple of months ago. A guy cut into my lane and immediately slammed on the brakes. I beeped, he drove on and brake tested me a couple of times and then made a wanker sign out of his open drivers window.

He bottled it at the next red light, though. I can tell you that his door was locked and his window fully up and he didn't seem as keen to engage with me. That's all I'll say.

The Gardai arrived at the door the following evening. I wasn't there but I spoke to the Garda on the phone and gave my version of events. She told me not to worry about it as it was my word against his.

But.... she perked up a bit when I told her I caught the whole thing on my dashcam. I told her if she wanted, I had no problem showing her the footage. By her tone, I gathered the other lad had given a different account of what happened. She did say she would be ringing him back.

Having said that, I never heard any more about it. But it might still be worth reporting him to cool his jets a bit.

Had a taxi do similar...

He hit me in my side and tried to push me to the ground..... Let's say he wasn't best pleased how it turned out for him or his face....

cena

yes you stop at a zebra crossing and wait till they have fully crossed over

i57dwun4yb1pt8

report that f*cking c*nt

Zatoichi

Lots of videos of American plains clothes police catching people ploughing through pedestrian crossings. The ignorant outrage out of some of them when they get done is amazing.

Borderfox

I have had quite a few close calls when using Zebra crossings (drivers ignoring them) One occurrence where the driver stopped on the crossing in front of me (no traffic other than them) and wondered why my fist came in the window towards them.

Its just another example of distracted drivers

con___manx1

You were in the right 100 percent op if he nearly drove into the back of you it would have been his fault if he did.

Isambard

the thing is about zebra's is that they are just normal intersections and the normal decency should prevail. Noone has a right of way just because they are a car driver, in fact it should be that pedestrians have right of way at all times, after all we are all pedestrians at some stage.

whiterebel

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah, not in my experience.

I've never been beeped at for stopping to let a person cross the road whether at a zebra crossing or not. I've seen some drivers (rarely) keep driving through a zebra crossing when it was obvious that a person was likely to use a zebra crossing (but they don't have to technically, and is just bad manners). However, I can't remember a driver ever continuing through a zebra crossing once a pedestrian had started to cross.

I find the OPs assertion bizzare.

You haven’t been around much then. The one local to me was a death trap with the amount of drivers tearing through with someone already crossing. I came close on 2 or 3 occasions myself. One particularly dangerous manoeuvre is when one stops, so you cross, and some other f*ckwit barrels through from the other direction. I see it all over the country. Mind you, pedestrians running out in front of cars 10 feet from a crossing grinds my gears too.

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Cabaal

Zatoichi wrote: »

Lots of videos of American plains clothes police catching people ploughing through pedestrian crossings. The ignorant outrage out of some of them when they get done is amazing.

Looking at the video its clear most of the drivers are going wayyy to fast and not paying attention, to almost hit a police officer in high viz clothing really shows they were not paying attention either.

Its a legal cross walk, when somebody is walking across they are legally required to yield and yet they still want to come up with excuses for not doing so.

cena

cena wrote: »

yes you stop at a zebra crossing and wait till they have fully crossed over

Why wait till they have fully crossed? No reason not to move off once they have have passed from in front of you particularly on wide roads.

garv123

They put crossings on roads off a lot of roundabouts on the ring road here, about a car length off the roundabout, they used lines and yield triangles for pedestrians to stop. Most of them plough on through thinking they have right of way.
Accident waiting to happen

Isambard

Felix Scrawny Fries wrote: »

Why wait till they have fully crossed? No reason not to move off once they have have passed from in front of you particularly on wide roads.

because someone seeing you move off t your side may assume it's Ok for them to proceed on the other side.

Pawwed Rig

Isambard wrote: »

because someone seeing you move off t your side may assume it's Ok for them to proceed on the other side.

Exactly. Or think of a motorbike coming from behind the still stopped car that sees moving traffic. It is only an extra 2 seconds for!!

whiterebel

garv123 wrote: »

They put crossings on roads off a lot of roundabouts on the ring road here, about a car length off the roundabout, they used lines and yield triangles for pedestrians to stop. Most of them plough on through thinking they have right of way.
Accident waiting to happen

Yes, that is unbelievably stupid. How someone is paid to make decisions like that escapes me.

cena

Felix Scrawny Fries wrote: »

Why wait till they have fully crossed? No reason not to move off once they have have passed from in front of you particularly on wide roads.

It is in case they decide to walk back when they are half why cross etc

The Royal Scam

I remember the first time I lauded my dad as a hero. We had just parked the car and started crossing a Zebra crossing, my father momentarily got distracted from cleaning his ear with his car key when a guy totally ignored us on a the crossing. The key popped outta that ear and keyed about 3/4 the way the length down your mans car. Yer man jams on and hops out, the big Ronnie Drew head on the old man pointed to the zebra and yer man scuttled back to his car. My Hero.