Folks are going to be very very confused when this zombie thread pops up again in a few years.
AFAIK in all states, cars may not legally hit pedestrians.
Aye, the right of way is something to be yielded, not used.
It’s shuffling its way thru congress -
Interesting, a recent zombie thread - what will it be in 6 years time?
It’s not a real zombie thread until somebody dies. And then comes crawling back from certain death to eat your brains.
Well since they were crossing at an intersection (watch the video in post#2 all the way through) and they were already in the street when the driver went through them, I have a nice crispy $5 bill in my pocket that says the driver is toast if the case gets in front of a judge.
Are you feeling lucky?
At the minimum the driver gets a failure to yield citation. At the maximum felony reckless driving. Driver is convicted of anything between those two I win.
Driver walks you win.
So do you want to bet?
I wouldn’t wager more than a nickel.
I wouldn’t either. I think that video is quite clear the driver was a moronic asshole. Sure, it escalated when a couple people sat on the hood, but backing up was always an option. So was just putting it in park and waiting it out. Three different people tried to talk to the driver - I can’t hear what they were saying, either, and they were clearly trying to give some sort of instruction, not threatening.
People? Or zombies?
It would make a huge difference, if you were deaf.
Drive through a person?? Like a… guh-guh-guh-GHOST?!
People. First was the rickshaw dude who pulled up next to them on their left. Next was a woman in a pink shirt who walked on in the car’s opposite direction and clearly not part of the group. Third was an orange shirt guy who showed up while pink shirt lady was trying and gave up. Now, he appeared to be part of the group, but didn’t look very zombified from what I could see.
Honestly, I can’t imagine pulling my car up so close to a wall of people. It was clearly obvious from quite far away that something was going on. I would have either stopped along with the SUV to the right and just waited, or backed up to do a u-turn and find another way around. This driver was a complete idiot asshole tool. Trying to honk the horn and just plow through all those people is unbelievable, and based on the honking that was happening before people tried to talk to him, to me that looks like he clearly intended to drive through the crowd in the first place. Just. Asshole.
Why? Are deaf people somehow more stupid than hearing people?
It was a joke. I’m sure the driver didn’t confuse people yelling at them with zombies yelling “brains!”
That is not the meaning of what I posted. Look at it again and this time focus on the word always. To recap: You didn’t read what I wrote. To recap: I clearly wrote that the idea that the pedestrian ALWAYS has the right of way is malarkey.
I’m not discussing that issue at all. What I was clearly discussing was the simple fact that the pedestrian does not always have the right of way. There are certain instances where the driver of the vehicle on the roadway has the right of way.
As to the video: I have no idea if that is all of the video available and, at any rate, I do not reside in the jurisdiction so I would never be selected for jury duty in that jurisdiction. From what I’ve seen in a few news reports on the incident, the driver declared that some members of the crowd attacked him. I would think, layman me, that it is incumbent upon the driver to prove that is the case. We’ll see how it plays out.
And my belief or lack thereof in my own luck has nothing to do with it.
The driver was at a stop sign, so there’s nothing really that could ever give him a “right of way” to drive though an intersection with pedestrians, (though it might be mitigated if he could show that he reasonably felt his life threatened).
The whole thing about pedestrians always having the “right of way” is an old wives’ tale corruption of the CA law which says if a pedestrian makes an indication of intending to cross at a crosswalk, a car must yield–when it is safe to do so. Likewise, every intersection (even those of alleys) is an “implied crosswalk” in CA, and so this theoretically applies to every intersection (unless local ordinance has marked the intersection as a “no crossing zone,” etc.) The law also says that it’s legal for pedestrians to cross between intersections unless both of them have traffic lights. . .
–when safe to do so.
Most of the codes in CA regarding the interactions between vehicles and pedestrians are qualified by the phrase when safe to do so, or something similar, so effectively there often is no categorical “right of way” in incidents like this, and it’s often up to a cop whether something warrants a ticket, or to a judge whether someone is culpable.
Ruh roh raggy.
You know best how things work in your mind, but I still don’t know how anything I posted contested or challenged anything you posted.
Even if he was, he might at least recognize Batman.
Instruction? Like “you can stick that horn up your ass”? 
What if the driver said he was afraid the crowd was going to attack his family in the car? People were starting to sit on the hood of the car, which to me is a mildly aggressive act.
(I think the drive is probally toast, legally, I’m just trying to anticipate some potential court claims on the side of the defense.)