to expect drivers to stop at a zibra crossing???

[lovecamping]

i get so at them. there is one on a busy road and we have to use it for the school run and today 6 cars went past before someone stopped for us to cross..... isnt it a traffic law that you have to stop at a zibra crossing when someone is on the road???

it really makes my blood boil

i also thought that you had to stop if there was someone waiting with a pram/buggy as then they couldn't step onto the crossing without pushing their child into moving traffic

No such rule im afraid. If a pedestrian is waiting at the side of the road, then it is not absolute that you have to stop, its just curteous to stop. If a pedestrian steps off the path into the crossing (buggy/pram or not) then drivers must stop.
It would make sense to you or i as mothers to be more coniderate of mothers with prams or buggies, but its not a legal rule.

they should make it a bloody rule though...imo....grr....
had this the other day...I was actually ON the zebracrossing....and some fucker idiot nearly run us over because he didn't want to stop....

Sorry 3andmore i dont make the rules

AAGGHH. Can finally let off some steam!

At my local crossing, 80% of drivers don't stop when I'm waiting on the pavement with buggy and child. Yes, I accept that they don't have to, but in order to make them legally obliged to, I would have to put myself and my children in great danger (road is not very wide, and there is usually traffic coming from both directions - so they'd have no where to swerve to if nec).

IMO, those drivers don't fail to stop because they take stock and think "Oh - they're not on the crossing so I don't have to". Half the time, they are oblivious to our presence anyway. And who wants to take the risk with LOs? Especially when you're trying to teach them road safety?

Yes, the law should be changed.

Or the crossing changed to a pelican, possibly more achievable, if you got a petition together.

That's worth a thought...