Does California Vehicle Code require that a vehicle shall yield right of way to a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Parsekyan v. Thompson, 24 Cal.Rptr. 393 (Cal. App. 1962):
Vehicle Code, Section 560, subdivision (a) (section 21950 in the 1959 recodification), requires that a vehicle shall yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk, but it does not require a driver to anticipate such a maneuver as was executed by plaintiff here. In Giles v. Happely, 123 Cal.App.2d 894, 267 P.2d 1051, the court approved a jury instruction which included the following language (p. 896, 267 P.2d p. 1053):
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