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Priority and pedestrian practice →Keep the signal condition with the yielding rule
Section 170(1) addresses crosswalk yielding when traffic-control signals are not in place or operating. It requires slowing or stopping if necessary, subject to section 171(2), which deals with a provided pedestrian tunnel or overhead crossing.
A pedestrian must not step suddenly into the path of a vehicle too close to yield. This condition is not permission to stop watching for people; section 172 separately preserves the driver’s duty of care.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — §§170–172 ↗Do not pass the vehicle hiding the pedestrian
Section 170(2) covers a vehicle stopped to let a pedestrian cross at a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. A driver approaching from behind must not overtake and pass it.
The blocked view is part of the danger. If the pedestrian is behind a van, an apparently empty lane does not establish a safe or lawful passing opportunity.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — §§170–172 ↗Try these decisions
Original learning cases
A vehicle has stopped at an unmarked intersection crossing for a pedestrian. Do not pass from behind merely because no stripes are visible.
A signal is operating at an intersection. Use the applicable signal rules rather than applying the no-operating-signal condition without qualification.
Someone steps into the road outside a crosswalk. Their yielding duty does not erase your duty to try to prevent a collision.
Continue exercising care outside the crossing
Under section 171, a pedestrian outside the specified crosswalk generally yields to vehicles, with additional crossing conditions in that section. Section 172 still requires drivers to take care to avoid hitting a pedestrian, warn when needed and take proper precautions around children or people needing extra care.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — §§170–172 ↗