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A car in traffic partially blocking a crosswalk is an everyday occurrence here in Washington DC. Hardly any pedestrians go ape about it to the point of smacking someone's car. One thing for sure, if you get courage and want to smack someone's car, you better be prepared to answer for it in one fashion or another. Doesn't make the person blocking the crosswalk right but that is a traffic offense at best, damaging private property is a CRIMINAL offense.
I would assume you were trying hit me, you were in the cross walk and shouldn't be close enough to a pedestrian to be smacked! I would dent your car so bad if you did this to me!
I was once taking a date to lunch in Charlotte, NC. Traffic was moving pretty well when I came to a crosswalk.
I stopped on a green light in that crosswalk. The young lady asked why I stopped. I told her to wait a sec. The car behind me started blaring it's horn. I stayed where I was.
A second or three after I stopped, a van went screaming through the intersection, making a right turn, a couple seconds later a couple cop cars followed with sirens wailing. The guy who had been on his horn gave a sheepish grin when I looked at him in the mirror.
I did not know when I stopped where they were coming from, but I certainly did hear those sirens - maybe others had their radio's too high or maybe they had wax in their ears; but had I proceeded, the young lady (and I) might well have been Spam in a can!
Plenty of other times I have heard cops, ambulances, and fire trucks, stopped and waited. By the time they passed often the lights had changed and there was no room to safely back up out of the crosswalk and I certainly was not going to go through a now red light to get to the other side.
Sometimes thing happen and you can indeed get trapped inside a crosswalk. For those who are making a "thing" out of this, either you have not driven enough to experience these situations or you are purposely making something of nothing, or both.
I would assume you were trying hit me, you were in the cross walk and shouldn't be close enough to a pedestrian to be smacked! I would dent your car so bad if you did this to me!
I would assume you were trying hit me, you were in the cross walk and shouldn't be close enough to a pedestrian to be smacked! I would dent your car so bad if you did this to me!
I think the issue is the car already being there and the pedestrian walking towards the car in the crosswalk after the car is sitting there stopped already. Dent the car and you risk arrest and criminal and civil penalties.
The car heading into the pedestrian is another matter.
Sometimes thing happen and you can indeed get trapped inside a crosswalk. For those who are making a "thing" out of this, either you have not driven enough to experience these situations or you are purposely making something of nothing, or both.
Been driving for 25 years. I don't get trapped in crosswalks. You simply don't proceed through an intersection unless there is a car's length area in front of the crosswalk (meaning the crosswalk on the far side of the intersection). It's that simple.
Agreed. I, too, live in the DC metro area and I make an effort to not block crosswalks or intersections.
Now, there have been occurrences where I didn't realize the cars in front had not advanced far enough for me to clear the crosswalk, causing me to inadvertently block a crosswalk. But it is something I try to avoid doing. I have never encountered someone who was angry about it - they typically cross in front or behind.
To answer OP's question: If they had smacked my car, I wouldn't react. I would't be happy about it and I may have not-so-nice thoughts but I would let it go. I certainly wouldn't be confrontational. Also, they would have to hit my car pretty hard for them to damage it.
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about it to the point of smacking someone's car. One thing for sure, if you get courage and want to smack someone's car, you better be prepared to answer for it in one fashion or another. Doesn't make the person blocking the crosswalk right but that is a traffic offense at best, damaging private property is a CRIMINAL offense.
