REPORT TITLE:
Pedestrian Safety


DESCRIPTION:
Requires vehicles approaching a crosswalk from either direction
to stop when a pedestrian has entered upon it.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                            1899        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 291C-72, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(a)  When traffic-control signals are not in place or not
 
 4 in operation the driver of a vehicle shall [yield the right of
 
 5 way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield,] slow down
 
 6 and stop in order to yield to a pedestrian crossing the roadway
 
 7 within a crosswalk [when the pedestrian is upon the half of the
 
 8 roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the
 
 9 pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of
 
10 the roadway as to be in danger.] whether the pedestrian is upon
 
11 the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or
 
12 upon the other half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is not
 
13 traveling."
 
14      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
15 New statutory material is underscored.
 
16      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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18                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________
 

 
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