Two woman crossing the street in a crosswalk are in critical condition after they were hit by a drunk driver. The pedestrian accident happened around 5600 West and 4000 South, Salt Lake City, Utah. According to KSL News, one car stopped for the two women, but a second, sadly, did not.
Utah law requires that when one car has stopped at a marked or unmarked crosswalk, an approaching car is required to also stop. That apparently didn’t happen in this case. The drunk that hit these women is clearly responsible for the resulting injuries. Let’s hope that the women had their own auto insurance to supplement that which the driver hopefully had.
The article does mention that the women were drunk. I don’t think this matters. They were not driving in a car, which is good, and they appeared to be crossing at a crosswalk, where they had a legal right to be. The fault is not with the women, who may have been intoxicated, but with the other driver (who happened to be drunk), who didn’t stop for these women in the crosswalk.
Published by: Ron Kramer
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