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Additional crosswalk regulations
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-- The driver of a vehicle crossing a sidewalk shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian and all other traffic on the sidewalk.
-- The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to any blind pedestrian carrying a clearly visible white cane or accompanied by a guide dog or a hearing impaired person accompanied by a hearing aid dog.
-- A person operating a manual or motorized wheelchair or other assisted mobility device along a sidewalk, or across a roadway in a crosswalk shall have all the rights and duties of a pedestrian under the same circumstances.
-- Traffic laws apply to persons on bicycles and other human-powered vehicles.
-- Bicycles must have a front light and rear reflector if ridden at night.
-- 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, to yield to a pedestrian crossing the highway within a crosswalk.
-- 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.
-- Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the highway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle ...
-- Every pedestrian crossing a highway at any point other than a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the highway ...
Source: Section 49-702 and 49-704 of the 2008 Idaho Criminal and Traffic Law Manual
-- The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to any blind pedestrian carrying a clearly visible white cane or accompanied by a guide dog or a hearing impaired person accompanied by a hearing aid dog.
-- A person operating a manual or motorized wheelchair or other assisted mobility device along a sidewalk, or across a roadway in a crosswalk shall have all the rights and duties of a pedestrian under the same circumstances.
-- Traffic laws apply to persons on bicycles and other human-powered vehicles.
-- Bicycles must have a front light and rear reflector if ridden at night.
-- 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, to yield to a pedestrian crossing the highway within a crosswalk.
-- 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.
-- Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the highway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle ...
-- Every pedestrian crossing a highway at any point other than a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the highway ...
Source: Section 49-702 and 49-704 of the 2008 Idaho Criminal and Traffic Law Manual
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