Pedestrians and crosswalks — California Permit Test

Pedestrians include a person walking, a person traveling on roller skates or a skateboard, and a person with a disability using a tricycle, quadricycle or wheelchair.

None of them has a bumper or a seat belt, which is what the whole rule turns on.

These are considered pedestrians or vulnerable road users:

When a pedestrian is crossing a roadway, with or without a crosswalk, you must use caution, reduce your speed, or stop to let them finish crossing.

Somebody halfway across cannot turn back, and the road is the only place they can be.

When there is a pedestrian crossing a roadway with or without a crosswalk, you must use caution, reduce your speed, or stop to allow the pedestrian to safely finish crossing.

Do not pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk, because you may not be able to see a pedestrian crossing the street.

The stopped car is hiding somebody, and the reason it stopped is that somebody is there.

Do not pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk. You may not be able to see a pedestrian crossing the street.

If a pedestrian makes eye contact with you they are ready to cross the street, so yield to them.

The look is them checking that you have seen them, and it means their next step is off the curb.

If a pedestrian makes eye contact with you, they are ready to cross the street.

Always allow pedestrians enough time to cross safely, since seniors, people with small children and people with disabilities may need extra time.

The signal counts the same seconds for everybody, and not everybody can use them at the same pace.

Always allow pedestrians enough time to safely cross a street as some groups such as seniors, people with small children, and people with disabilities may require extra time.

A crosswalk is the part of the road set aside for pedestrians, often marked with white lines, and school crossings may have yellow lines; not all crosswalks are marked.

The unmarked ones are still crosswalks, and people use them exactly as if they had paint.

A crosswalk is the part of the road set aside for pedestrians to safely cross the road.

Pedestrians have the right-of-way in marked and unmarked crosswalks, and where a limit line comes before the crosswalk you stop at the limit line.

Stopping at the line leaves the whole crossing clear for the person using it.

Pedestrians have the right-of-way in marked or unmarked crosswalks. If there is a limit line before the crosswalk, stop at the limit line and allow pedestrians to cross the street.

Some crosswalks have flashing lights, and whether or not the lights are flashing you look for pedestrians and be prepared to stop.

The lights only come on when somebody presses them, and plenty of people do not.

Some crosswalks have flashing lights. Whether or not the lights are flashing, look for pedestrians and be prepared to stop.

Who counts as a pedestrian?

Anyone on foot, skates or a wheelchair. None of them has a bumper or a seat belt, which is what the whole rule turns on. California Driver’s Handbook, p.41: “These are considered pedestrians or vulnerable road users:”