Rules of Road for Pedestrians in Denver Colorado by Brian Weiss

1. Rules of the Road for Pedestrians
Brian Weiss
Crawford Weiss

2. What are the rules of the road for pedestrians
in Denver?
Easy when traffic lights & control signals.

3. What are the rules of the road for pedestrians in
Denver?
Easy when traffic lights & control signals.

4. What if there are no traffic lights or control signals?
§ 54-538. Right-of-way in crosswalk
When there is no traffic-control signal in place or working, the driver of a
vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be
to so yield to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when
the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is
traveling, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the
opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.

5. What if there are not any crosswalks?
Who has right of way?
What about a local street?

6. Ways folks get into trouble
Caveat:-- no pedestrian shall suddenly leave the
curb or edge of the roadway, or other place of
safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle
which is so close that it is impossible for the driver
to yield the right-of-way. A pedestrian's right-of-
way in the crosswalk is modified under the
conditions and as stated in section 54-540. This is
the sudden leaving a place of safety example –
meaning folks need to look before they leap!
Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked
crosswalk or at an unmarked crosswalk at an
intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the
roadway, the driver of any other vehicle
approaching from the rear shall not overtake and
pass such stopped vehicle. This means another
driver can’t just go around a vehicle waiting in a
person to cross the roadway.

7. Do we have to cross at a crosswalk?
Yes, except if it is “local street” or in other words with little
traffic & not a throughway

8. (31) Local street shall mean a street which has the primary function of
providing access to abutting property, and which does not normally carry
through traffic.
No J-walking – must use right angles 54-541
(a) It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to enter or to cross a roadway except
as provided in section 54-542.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to cross a roadway in any manner
other than by a direct route at right angles to the roadway edge or by the
shortest route from the nearest to the opposite roadway edge, except in a
marked crosswalk or where crossing at any other angle to the roadway edge is
authorized by the city traffic engineer.

9. What type of insurance should you have?
Health – Private, Employer, Medicare, Medicaid
Auto Coverage – can cover you if you are hit by a car
Medical Payments, Uninsured Motorist

10. Brian Weiss of Bike Law Colorado
Brian@BikeLaw.com
303-741-0249