That's a law that can snag you with a fine as high as $260 and 3 points on your driving record, and leave you saying, "I didn't know that law worked like that".
Most folks in Florida find out about that law as a result of getting a ticket for unknowingly violating it.
Some of you all may not know this, but in Florida it is illegal to drive across a pedestrian crosswalk if a pedestrian is anywhere in that same crosswalk...Even if the pedestrian 60 feet or more away from where the car is traveling across.
And a City of Lake Mary police officer at a Starbucks once told me that law goes even if the pedestrian is jaywalking.
According to that police officer, even for a jaywalker, you are required by Florida law to keep your car out of the crosswalk until the pedestrian clears the crosswalk, even if it means stopping at a green light in a 45 mph speed zone while the pedestrian is 5 or 6 lanes away.
Of course in Pic #3 the driver of the tan station wagon would have been at fault in the collision...It's what keeps personal injury attorneys in business I guess.
In Pic #4 the driver of the pick up truck would be committing road rage.
In most other states, the crosswalk laws are drafted to make better sense. Most states only forbid you to drive across a crosswalk if the pedestrian is closer than 20 or 25 feet to where you are driving across.
And in many states, a jaywalker does not have the right-of-way. If you jaywalk, you do so at your own risk.
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