[muawiyah]

Legally speaking it is never the pedestrians fault when he or she is t-boned by a moving motor vehicle.

It goes further than that in Washington State. If the pedestrian is in a marked pedestrian crosswalk and you run them down there are penalties beyond the dreams of avarice.

[SwankyC]

Of course, I blame myself for even talking to you. Yer makin' shizzle up again.

There's no such thing as jaywalking laws - except I've gotten a ticket for it and the story says that's what he was doing.

The story clearly doesn't say it was the pedestrian's fault for ignoring the crosswalks and stepping into traffic - except that it does.

Good lord, you progressives will say anything to make something fit your little tiny world view.

[afraidfortherepublic]

If the pedestrian is in a marked pedestrian crosswalk and you run them down there are penalties beyond the dreams of avarice.

It goes further than that in CA. Any place a pedestrian chooses to cross a street becomes a crosswalk -- marked, or not. I noticed in my old home town last summer that they have constructed immpermeable fences down the median strips to prevent people from crossing in the middle of blocks.