(a) Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in this subchapter.
(b) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle.
History. Acts 1937, No. 300, § 76; Pope's Dig., § 6734; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-627.
Case Notes
Subsection (b) of this section was not applicable to an action for injuries incurred by a pedestrian who was struck by a motor vehicle while walking in a painted crosswalk provided for pedestrians at an intersection which was controlled by traffic signals to which the pedestrian was subject by statute. Washburn v. Stuart's Muffler Shop, 257 Ark. 59, 513 S.W.2d 913 (1974).