Brinker v. District of Columbia

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant, a taxicab driver, was convicted of violating Section 52(a)' of the Traffic and Motor Vehicle Regulations for the District of Columbia. Section 52(a) provides in part-:

“ * * * the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk * *

The alleged violation took place at night at Adams Mill Road and Lamont Street, N.W. Appellant was proceeding in a southerly direction on Adams Mill Road and collided with a pedestrian, who was removed to a hospital before the…