A “pedestrian crosswalk” not at an intersection, as is the case here, is a recipe for people getting mowed down.
You just don’t expect it.
When I went to California on business about 30 years ago I was driving just after dark on an unfamiliar road and all of a sudden there was a person standing in the middle of the road right in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and the ABS kicked in and stopped the car about five feet from him. I had never encountered a crosswalk without an intersection in any place I had ever lived, and I just didn’t expect it.
Thank God for anti-lock brakes.
I got hit by a car in a crosswalk two years ago. Broke both legs, the driver left me for dead. It was a freeway on ramp.
Lucky I had my cell phone to call 911. It was 4AM and light traffic, only two cars drove around me while I was laying in the road, waiting for the ambulance.