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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 14-300d (2025)

Operator of a vehicle required to exercise due care to avoid pedestrian

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Notwithstanding any provisions of the general statutes or any regulations issued thereunder, sections 14-299, 14-300, 14-300b to 14-300e, inclusive, or any local ordinance to the contrary, each operator of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian or person propelling a human powered vehicle and shall give a reasonable warning by sounding a horn or other lawful noise emitting device to avoid a collision. An operator who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

(P.A. 78-309, S. 5; P.A. 16-54, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 16-54 replaced “A violation of” with “An operator who violates” and replaced “an infraction” with “fined not more than five hundred dollars”.

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2001–2021 · leading case: Wager v. Moore, 220 A.3d 48 (Conn. App. Ct. 2019).
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Wager v. Moore, 220 A.3d 48 (Conn. App. Ct. 2019). · cites it 10× “14- 300b to 14-300e, inclusive, or any local ordinance to the contrary, each operator of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian .”
Cavaliere v. Olmsted, 909 A.2d 52 (Conn. App. Ct. 2006). · cites it 4× “General Statutes § 14-300d” and by “failing to keep an appropriate look out for pedestrians .”
Sandow v. Eckstein, 786 A.2d 1223 (Conn. App. Ct. 2001). ““Section 14-300d of the Connecticut General Statutes provides that an operator of a vehicle should exercise due care to avoid colliding with a pedestrian and should give reasonable warning by sounding a horn or other noise [emitting] devise to avoid collision.”
Pettiford v. State, 178 A.3d 1126 (Conn. App. Ct. 2018). · cites it 3× “inadequate or defective brakes or failed to apply the brakes properly; he failed to keep the van under proper control; failed to maneuver the van around the plaintiff; he operated the van at an unreasonable rate of speed in violation of General Statutes §§ 14-218a or 14-219 ; he…”
Borelli v. Renaldi, No. SC20232 (Conn. Feb. 16, 2021). · cites it 2× “2d 825 (1959) (‘‘[a driver] is required to keep a reasonable lookout for any persons and traffic he is likely to encounter, and he is chargeable with notice of dangers of whose existence he could become aware by a reasonable exercise of his faculties’’); Connecticut Civil Jury…”
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