The Lakewood Police Department today is conducting another “Cops in Crosswalks” operation, in an effort to crackdown on vehicles who violated the “Stopping/Yielding for persons in the crosswalk” law.
The Stop and Stay Stopped Law, which became effective in New Jersey on April 1, 2010, states that drivers must bring their vehicle to a complete stop at marked crosswalks to allow pedestrians to pass in front of them.
Drivers must:
- Stop and remain stopped while a pedestrian is in a marked crosswalk. (39:4-36)
- Stop and remain stopped for pedestrians crossing within the adjacent crosswalk into which the motorist is turning right from either a red signal, stop or yield sign. (39:4-36)
- Stop and remain stopped if a pedestrian is within one lane of their half of roadway. (39:4-36)
- Not overtake and pass a vehicle that is stopped to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway. (39:4-36)
- Yield to pedestrians at unmarked crosswalks at an uncontrolled intersection. (39:4-36)
- Exercise due care for the safety of any pedestrian upon a roadway. (39:4-36)
Violating these guidelines can result in a driver receiving a fine of $200, a 15-day community-service sentence and four motor vehicle points.
Pedestrians must:
- Not leave a “curb or other place of safety” by walking or running into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield or stop. (39:4-36)
- Yield to drivers when crossing a road at any point other than within a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. (39:4-36)
- Yield to drivers at intersections where the pedestrian does not have a green “walk” signal and where drivers have a green signal. (39:4-32)
- Walk on sidewalks where they are provided and accessible. (39:4-34)
- Walk along the extreme left side of a highway or its shoulder when possible facing approaching traffic if there is no sidewalk. (39:4-34)
- Exercise due care for his/her safety. (39:4-36)
- Not cross any highways having roadways separated by a median barrier except where provision is made for pedestrians to cross. (39:4-34)
Pedestrians risk $54 fines and community service is they fail to yield the right of way to motorists anywhere except at crosswalks.
If this town really cared about pedestrians, they would make this town more safe to walk in.
This sounds more like a money grab, are they planing to use the money they get from the grab to make it safer for pedestrians to walk?
Why do you say all this?!
Because it’s true the town does not care about pedestrians.
If they did they would put sidewalks that are pedestrian friendly(not every sidewalk put down in this town is very friendly to those who use them)every time they re-due an intersection.
There are many more things the town can do to make it safer for those not using cars to get around.
The fact is if the only thing they can think of to make it safer for pedestrians is to fine people then it means it’s a money grab.
It’s not the town that doesn’t care it’s the citizens themselves.
Should be enforced everyday. Blood should be donated at the blood bank and not left on the road.
Pay attention when you drive and you won’t get a ticket.
And pedestrians must wear reflectors at night – all year. And bikes are required by law to have lights.
they should realy ticket anyone walking on the road at night without a reflector, extremely dangerous
Pedestrians should also look both ways before crossing the road they should not just assume they are entitled to bolt out into the road without taking caution first.
Thats technically entrapment to stage plain cloth cops to bait out tickets by walking in the roadway to entrap unexpected drivers