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Originally Posted by Burninator
This has come up before. A driver never has the right to hit someone because they are crossing illegally. If someone jaywalks in front of a car, the car has to stop for them. So in that sense pedestrians always have the right of way.
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Of course a driver never has the right to hit someone. But what it does mean is that if a driver did hit someone that was jaywalking, it's not an automatic charge to the driver just because he did hit that person - circumstances of the accident now matter.