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Zebra Crossing Definition:
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Striped white or yellow lines painted on asphalted streets indicating a pedestrian crossing or a pedestrian right-of-way.
Whether or not a pedestrian has right-of-way merely because he or she is upon a zebra crossing depends on the local rules, the careful engagement upon the zebra crossing, as well as the presence or not of pedestrian crossing lights.
Shown on the cover of a Beatles album (Abbey Road).
Gerald Dodson (1884-1967), later a judge but while acting as counsel and before a jury, once said;
"If there is one dangerous place on the cross-roads, it is a pedestrian crossing."1
REFERENCES:
- Fountain, Richard, The Wit of the Wig (London: Leslie Frewin Publisher, 1968), page 487 [NOTE 1]
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