Or. Rev. Stat. § 814.040

Failure to yield to vehicle; penalty

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      814.040 Failure to yield to vehicle; penalty. (1) A pedestrian commits the offense of pedestrian failure to yield to a vehicle if the pedestrian does any of the following:

      (a) Suddenly leaves a curb or other place of safety and moves into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.

      (b) Fails to yield the right of way to a vehicle upon a roadway when the pedestrian is crossing the roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection.

      (c) Except as otherwise provided under the vehicle code, fails to yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

      (2) The offense described in this section, pedestrian failure to yield to a vehicle, is a Class D traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §555; 1995 c.383 §84]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1986–2020 · leading case: State v. Tyler
State v. Tyler (2000) orctapp “030 requires pedestrians to obey bridge and railroad signals; ORS 814.040 describes when a pedestrian must yield to a vehicle; ORS *607 814.”
State v. Boekelheide (2020) orctapp “ORS 814.040 describes the circumstances under which pedestrians must yield to vehicles, as for instance, when the pedestrian is not in a crosswalk.”
State v. Tyler (2017) orctapp · cites it 4× “As noted in Tyler , ORS 814.040 concerns a pedestrian’s obligation to yield to vehicles when crossing a roadway.”
Nyman v. Lang (1986) orctapp “Repealed, by Or Laws 1983, ch 338, § 978, and replaced by Or Laws 1983, ch 338, § 555 (now ORS 814.040), effective January 1,1986. Or Laws 1983, ch.”
— Or. Rev. Stat. § 814.040(1)(b) — 1 case
State v. Tyler (2017) orctapp “As noted in Tyler , ORS 814.040 concerns a pedestrian’s obligation to yield to vehicles when crossing a roadway.”
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