Pedestrian Struck

I am sure it was the pedestrian's fault. In this town it is always the pedestrian's fault...

It's absolutely the pedestrians fault. She stepped off the sidewalk without yielding to a vehicle who had the right of way on the roadway. Just because she's a pedestrian walking across the street doesn't mean she can do anything she wants. These pedestrians in this city think they can walk wherever and whenever they want regardless if theres a crosswalk, signal etc. I know for a fact there is not a crosswalk where she crossed therefore she's at fault.

Get that notion of pedestrians have the right of way out of your head because they don't. They've only got the right of way if they're in a marked crosswalk and/or have the crosswalk signal.

Pedestrians also have the right of way at unmarked crosswalks. State law is unambiguous but very dense on this issue.

DuncanIdaho645 -

Maybe so but from the picture it looks like it's directly in front of the Frontier building on Orange Street between Wall and Grove. This would mean she was not at a marked or even an unmarked crosswalk since there is none directly in front of the building. The only crosswalks there at are up the street at Wall and down the Street at Grove.

DNH,

I think you're right about this pedestrian crossing midblock and not being in a crosswalk. However, on the subject of "what's a crosswalk", state law says that anyplace where you project a sidewalk line across a street and hit another sidewalk is a crosswalk, whether or not it's marked.

Robn -

If that's the case they why do we even have crosswalks? If anyone can "project a sidewalk line across a street and hit another sidewalk" for a crosswalk, then marked crosswalks and signals are useless and a useless thing to have. Based on the law you stated, any pedestrian can walk anywhere and anytime they want regardless of the traffic, right of way etc.

DNH,

Maybe I'm not being clear. The sidewalk line is projected parallel to the path of travel. Here's a diagram.
https://goo.gl/images/imotQZ

Okay that does help explain what you mean and thank you for the picture. Unfortunately when I look at that diagram, I see the arrows connecting from at least one corner on every one. Judging from the picture above, it looks as though she crossed where there was 1. no corner, and 2. the middle of the sidewalk/road.

This would mean that since she was not at a unmarked crosswalk/corner like on the diagram you provided, she would be at fault. Based on the picture above, I would put the pedestrian crossing the street in the diagram about where the letter "n" is in unmarked.

DGN,

As I suggested earlier, there is no midblock crosswalk between the FBI and Frontier.

https://goo.gl/maps/xueagLfs6hG2

Doesn't look like she had the right of way, just wanted to clarify that pedestrians have the right of way at more places than just marked crosswalks. Crosswalk markings are installed to suggest to pedestrians the preferred (safest) place to cross and/or to warn motorists of known pedestrian demand.