Comment 63340

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted May 10, 2011 at 17:46:50

Since we agree skateboarders are pedestrians, as has pedestrians have a legal obligation to stay on the sidewalk when it is available, and to stop and wait for traffic before crossing an intersection.

Part 10, Section 140 Subsection 4

No pedestrian or person in a wheelchair shall leave the curb or other place of safety at a pedestrian crossover and walk, run or move the wheelchair into the path of a vehicle or street car that is so close that it is impracticable for the driver of the vehicle or street car to yield the right of way.

We can say that he is at fault for not obeying this law, given he was traveling in the opposing curb lane and not the sidewalk. However, I'll accept the argument that engineers shouldn't build their streets, assuming people will follow the law (which they should be doing for their own safety). After all, I doubt anyone would say the intersection at Dundurn and Main St is well designed. Thus I would like to make a modest proposal.

Please cite what you feel is specifically wrong with the engineering of the intersection at Charlton and John, and how its single one way direction (on the westside, not from the eastside where the car came from, or south where the skateboarder came from and the car was going, or north where he was going) in any way could have prevented this accident if you want to correlate bad engineering/one way streets as the cause of this accident.

Yes this accident was tragic, and I feel for his family, but it's not fair to wholly release him from blame in this situation.

Comment edited by -Hammer- on 2011-05-10 17:56:46

Still waiting for the Randle Reef mess to get cleaned up, but hopefully not much longer!

http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/18/hamilton-randle-reef-announcement.html

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