(a) The Board of Transportation, with reference to State highways, and local authorities, with reference to highways under their jurisdiction, are hereby authorized to erect or install, at intersections or other appropriate places, special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words or symbols "WALK" or "DON'T WALK" as a part of a system of traffic-control signals or devices.
(b) Whenever special pedestrian-control signals are in place, such signals shall indicate as follows:
(1) WALK. - Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the highway in the direction of the signal and shall be given the right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles.
(2) DON'T WALK. - No pedestrian shall start to cross the highway in the direction of such signal, but any pedestrian who has partially completed his crossing on the "WALK" signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island while the "DON'T WALK" signal is showing.
(c) Where a system of traffic-control signals or devices does not include special pedestrian-control signals, pedestrians shall be subject to the vehicular traffic-control signals or devices as they apply to pedestrian traffic.
(d) At places without traffic-control signals or devices, pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and shall be subject to the restrictions stated in Part 11 of this Article. (1937, c. 407, s. 133; 1973, c. 507, s. 5; c. 1330, s. 31; 1987, c. 125.)
Notes of Decisions
Spencer v. McDowell Motor Co., 72 S.E.2d 598 (N.C. 1952).
· cites it 2× “133 of the above Act, now G.S. § 20-172, it is declared that "Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control signals at intersections as heretofore declared in this article, but at all other places pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and shall *602 be subject to the…”
Wagoner v. Butcher, 170 S.E.2d 151 (N.C. Ct. App. 1969).
“G.S. 20-172 provides: “Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control signals at intersections as heretofore declared in this article, but at all other places pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and shall be subject to the restrictions stated in part eleven of this…”
Metcalf v. Foister, 61 S.E.2d 77 (N.C. 1950).
“” The assignment of error is as follows: “The Court erred in the above charge for that the Court referred to certain statutes but erroneously stated the provisions of said statutes, and for the further reason that the Court failed to charge the duty of the defendant to the…”
Barrow v. Sargent (N.C. Ct. App. 2021).
· cites it 2× “” See N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 20-172 (b) (2016) (Pedestrian-control signals shall indicate either “WALK” or “DON’T WALK”); 20-174(d) (2016) (“Where sidewalks are provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway.”
Barrow v. Sargent (N.C. Ct. App. 2021).
· cites it 2× “” See N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 20-172 (b) (2016) (Pedestrian-control signals shall indicate either “WALK” or “DON’T WALK”); 20-174(d) (2016) (“Where sidewalks are provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway.”
Spencer v. McDowell Motor Co., 72 S.E.2d 598 (N.C. 1952).
“133 of the above Act, now G.S. 20-172, it is declared that “pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control signals at intersections as theretofore declared in this Act, but at all other places pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and shall be subject to the restrictions…”
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