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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yeah, but what does it mean to "yield to" someone or something? I just had a quick look at the Act and a couple of other traffic websites and it's not defined anywhere. In some cases the definition is circular. The closest thing to a meaning I can find is "slow down or stop and don't proceed until it is safe to do so". There's a very good argument that once the pedestrian is on the other side of the road from the direction you are traveling, it's safe to proceed.
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Yeah, I'm actually gonna put this to bed right now because it's already been legally tested:
R v Schumacher, 2014 ABQB 571
If there is no interference with the pedestrian's right of way (ie: impediment of their forward progression through the crosswalk), then there should be a finding that the car did yield. So the cop in the Globe and Mail article is wrong.
https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/do...ocompletePos=1
You do not have to wait until the pedestrian fully crosses, you only have to wait until the pedestrian has passed
your lane.
Another officer as quoted in a Calgary Herald article gets it right:
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“If a person has one foot off of the curb, they’re in the crosswalk,” says Staff Sgt. Paul Stacey of the Calgary police traffic section. Drivers can continue once a pedestrian has passed their lane (the obligation isn’t “curb to curb,” Stacey says) but passing a motorist already stopped at a crosswalk is dangerous — not to mention expensive: a $575 fine and four demerits.
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/traff...rivers-its-you