Whether a pedestrian can be at fault in an accident can sometimes be tricky. In Georgia, the law acknowledges that pedestrians, like drivers, have responsibilities when navigating streets and sidewalks. While many might assume that the driver is always to blame in auto-pedestrian incidents, this is not necessarily true. Various actions or behaviors by pedestrians, such as jaywalking, distracted walking,

A crosswalk, an unmarked intersection crossing, and a mid-block crossing do not begin from the same Georgia traffic rule. Negligence cannot be evaluated in a pedestrian accident claim until the crossing context is identified. From there, the analysis asks four connected questions: what duty applied, whether someone breached it, whether that conduct caused the collision or injury, and what legally