What is the common law duty of a pedestrian to take reasonable care when using a roadway?

Pedestrians and drivers owe a common law duty to take reasonable care for the safety of others and themselves when using a roadway: Wotherspoon v. Hameluck, 2014 BCSC 2137, [Wotherspoon], at para. 16.

The standard of care to be applied to drivers is that of a reasonably prudent motorist in light of all the circumstances. Motorists are not required to anticipate all foreseeable road hazards, but only those that are reasonably foreseeable. The standard of care of a driver is not one of perfection, but whether the driver acted in a manner in which an ordinarily prudent person would act: Hadden v. Lynch, 2008 BCSC 295, at para. 69.

A driver’s obligation to take evasive action to avoid hitting a pedestrian only arises when he or she becomes aware, or ought to have become aware, that the pedestrian was not going to obey the law: Beauchamp v. Shand, 2004 BCSC 272, at para. 33.