Is a marked crosswalk a crosswalk where there is a pedestrian crossing?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wotherspoon v. Hameluck, 2014 BCSC 2137 (CanLII):
In Niitamo v. ICBC, 2003 BCSC 608 at para. 22, Madam Justice Ballance held that a marked crosswalk is precisely the place where a motorist could reasonably expect to encounter another user of the road, and that in approaching a marked crosswalk in anticipation of crossing through it, a motorist assumes a heightened duty to take extreme care and maintain a vigilant lookout for those who might be in the crosswalk.
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