(A) Rights and
duties generally. Pedestrians shall be subject to the traffic control signals
provided for in paragraphs (E) and (F) of rule
regulation 3335-21-11 of the Administrative
Code these regulations, but at all other places pedestrians shall be
granted those rights and be subject to the restrictions stated in this chapter
or in state statute.
(B) Right of
way in crosswalks; overtaking stopped vehicles.
(1) 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 necessary to so yield, to a pedestrian
crossing the street or roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon
the half of the street or roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when
the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the street
or roadway as to be in danger.
(2)
No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or
run into the path of a vehicle which is so close as to constitute an immediate
hazard.
(3) Whenever a vehicle is
stopped at a marked crosswalk or at an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to
permit a pedestrian to cross the
street or roadway, the driver of any other
vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped
vehicle
.
as set forth
in section 4511.46 of the Revised Code.
(C) Movement in crosswalks.
Pedestrians shall move, wherever practical, upon the right half of crosswalks
as set forth in section 4511.49 of the Revised Code.
(D)
(C) Crossing streets and roadways. No pedestrian shall
cross a street or roadway at any place other than by a route at right angles to
the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb, except in a
crosswalk.
(E)
(D) Right of way of motorists.
(1) Every pedestrian crossing a street or
roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked
crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon
the street or roadway.
(2) Any
pedestrian crossing a
street or roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or
overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the
right of way to
all traffic upon the
street or roadway
as set forth
in section 4511.48 of the Revised Code.
(F) Prohibited crossings. Between
adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation,
pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk as set
forth in section 4511.48 of the Revised Code.
(G) Walking on streets and
roadways.
(1) Where sidewalks are provided and
their use is practical, no pedestrian shall walk along and upon an adjacent
street or roadway.
(2) Where sidewalks are not
available, any pedestrian walking along and upon a street or roadway shall walk
only on a shoulder, or if no shoulder is available, shall walk as far as
practical from the edge of the street or roadway as set forth in section
4511.50 of the Revised Code.
(H)
(E)
Soliciting rides or business from motorists.
(1) No person shall stand in a street or
roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment or business from the
occupant of a vehicle.
(2) No
person shall stand on or in proximity to a street, roadway or parking area for
the purpose of soliciting a sale or the watching or guarding of a vehicle while
such vehicle is parked or about to be parked on a street, roadway or parking
area.
(I)
(F) Responsibility of drivers. Notwithstanding the
provisions of these rules, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to
avoid colliding with a pedestrian upon a
street or roadway, shall give warning
by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon
observing a child or a confused or incapacitated person upon a
street or
roadway.
(J) Right of way of blind
persons.
(1) As used in this paragraph "blind
person" or "blind pedestrian" means a person having not more than twenty/two
hundred visual acuity in the better eye with correcting lenses or visual acuity
greater than twenty/two hundred but with a limitation in the fields of vision
such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater
than twenty degrees. The driver of every vehicle shall yield the right of way
to every blind pedestrian guided by a guide dog, or carrying a cane which is
predominantly white or metallic in color, with or without a red
tip.
(2) No person, other than a blind
person, while on any public highway, street, alley or other public
thoroughfare, shall carry a white or metallic cane, with or without a red tip
as set forth in section 4511.47 of the Revised Code.
(K) Boarding or alighting from
moving vehicles. No person shall board or alight from a vehicle while such
vehicle is in motion.
(L) Hanging onto or riding on
outside of vehicles. No person shall hang onto, or ride on the outside of, a
motor vehicle while it is moving upon a street or roadway, except mechanics or
test engineers making repairs or adjustments. No operator shall knowingly
permit a person to hang onto, or ride on the outside of, a motor vehicle while
it is moving upon a street or roadway, except mechanics or test engineers
making repairs or adjustments as set forth in section 4511.51 of the Revised
Code.
Replaces: 3335-21-12
