07-15-2016, 05:03 PM
(07-15-2016, 04:46 PM)plam Wrote:(07-15-2016, 04:11 PM)Canard Wrote: Here we go again...
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/19-year-old-...-1.2988228
19 year old woman with minor injuries - hit by car at low speed. She was riding through a crosswalk. Report says "no charges will be laid", which I'm shocked by, because she should totally get nailed with the $110 fine for riding through a crosswalk!
From the picture it doesn't look like a marked crosswalk, so just really an intersection, and the crosswalk is not really that different from where one would normally cross if riding through. But it also looks like she was going the wrong way on the street: both streets are 2-way and the bicycle seems to be coming from the driver's right. Always a bad place to be, because the driver looks left.
Driver needs to look right for pedestrians.....most don't though.
And there's only a sidewalk on one side at this point. Not that I think it really matters.
Also, unmarked crosswalk, I believe, under the HTA is still a crosswalk, as defined as the connection between the curb cuts on what would be a continuous sidewalk.