Right of Way at Drive Crossing

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Thu 4 Oct 2018 03:51
Right of Way at Drive Crossing - fredthefifth

My understanding is that at a normal drive crossing (where the vehicle crosses dropped kerbs to cross the footpath) the pedestrian has priority.over vehicles,

At a crossing where kerbs intersect the footpath and the pedestrian crosses the dropped kerbs, it is in fact an access road and vehicles have priority.

Right?

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Thu 4 Oct 2018 09:38
Right of Way at Drive Crossing - Brit_in_Germany

I think pedestrians have priority in both cases, though for the second, I recall that the Highway Code uses "should" rather than "must".

Rule 170:

  • watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way

Edited by Brit_in_Germany on 04/10/2018 at 09:40

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Sat 6 Oct 2018 20:26
Right of Way at Drive Crossing - focussed

There is no such thing as "right of way" in terms of road traffic, Right of way has to do with property access etc - not driving.

Brit-in-Germany has it right - the term is priority.

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Mon 8 Oct 2018 10:08
Right of Way at Drive Crossing - fredthefifth

Maybe right of way is the wrong term.

I'm referring to the situation where a pedestrian is walking along the footpath and a car is puling off their drive, they are close together, the car driver can clearly see the pedestrian and if the car driver doesn't stop they will block the pedestrians progress.

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Wed 7 Nov 2018 01:29
Right of Way at Drive Crossing - J0HNuk

a pedestrian is walking along the footpath and a car is puling off their drive, they are close together, the car driver can clearly see the pedestrian and if the car driver doesn't stop they will block the pedestrians progress.

Surely the driver is in the wrong. He should check all around and not move until it is safe to do so. If there is a pedestrian coming, it clearly isn't safe to do so .

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Wed 7 Nov 2018 12:38
Right of Way at Drive Crossing - Gibbo_Wirral

Reversing off the drive and forcing pedestrians to leap out of the way is my bugbear.

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Wed 7 Nov 2018 23:21
Right of Way at Drive Crossing - Avant

It doesn't matter very much whose right of way, or priority, it is. The pedestrian is more vulnerable than the vehicle so the driver should always watch out.

If it's one of those driveways where there's a hedge or wall preventing a driver from seeing all of the pavement or road, then they need to inch out slowly. If at all possible, it's better to reverse into rather than out of a driveway.

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