Originally Posted by
himespau
My main problem is with unsigned crosswalks (ie no lights or stop signs in any direction just a crosswalk and maybe a yield to peds sign). I've had people jump out in front of me and get all up in my face because I somehow didn't sense that because they were walking near the crosswalk that they wanted to use it and that I should come to a complete stop any time I'm on the road and there is anyone even remotely near a crosswalk whether they're moving towards it or not.
Poking around on the web, even many state that give the vehicle the right of way in a "controlled" crosswalk give the pedestrian the right if way in an uncontrolled crosswalk - the kind you are describing.
For example, Massachusetts:
Section 11. When traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way, slowing down or stopping if need be so to yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk marked in accordance with standards established by the department of highways if the pedestrian is on that half of the traveled part of the way on which the vehicle is traveling or if the pedestrian approaches from the opposite half of the traveled part of the way to within 10 feet of that half of the traveled part of the way on which said vehicle is traveling.
http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/Ge...er89/Section11