Pedestrian Use of Roadway

a. A pedestrian crossing a roadway shall yield the right-of-way to funerals or other processions, ambulances, civil defense, fire, police, and like vehicles on emergency runs, and when such procession of vehicles has passed, shall cross the roadway only in conformance with these Rules.

b. No pedestrian shall leave a sidewalk or safety island and walk or run into the path of a moving vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield the right-of-way.

c. No pedestrian shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment, or business from the operator or any occupant of any vehicle thereon.

d. No pedestrian shall enter upon a marked crosswalk unless a crossing of the roadway is intended.

e. A pedestrian crossing a roadway within a marked crosswalk shall use the half of such crosswalk to his/her right.

f. A person alighting from a vehicle parked or stopped at a sideline of, or a curb in a roadway, shall alight from the side of such a vehicle nearest such sideline or curb, or if he/she alights from the other side of such vehicle, shall proceed immediately to such sideline or curb, and in either case shall thereupon cross such roadway only in conformance with these Rules.

g. No pedestrian shall walk along the roadway of any way having a sidewalk open to pedestrian use; and no pedestrian shall walk along any other roadway, except on the unfinished shoulder nearest to vehicles proceeding in the direction opposite to the pedestrian’s direction.