Pedestrian Accident

Students and neighbors cross Central Avenue near the campus and walk along Canyon Crest Drive. Vehicle Code section 21950 requires a driver to yield to a walker inside a marked crosswalk, or inside an unmarked crossing at an intersection, and it also imposes due-care duties on the person on foot. An officer is not to stop a walker for a violation of that section unless a reasonably careful person would realize an immediate danger of a collision.

A due-care issue can matter to a later share of fault, but a pedestrian who was hurt can still seek damages. The two-year clock in section 335.1 still runs. Obtain the official crash report from the department that handled the wreck, keep photographs of the crossing, and put a six-month claim reminder on the list if a public-entity theory may be involved.

The longer walkthrough lives in the pedestrian and bicycle guide. A later Riverside County filing is often a Riverside Superior Court matter, subject to the current assignment order.