Citations would be issued for instances of illegal pedestrian activity Washington State Crosswalk Law Vehicles must stop if a pedestrian is in their half of the roadway. Vehicles must stop if a pedestrian is within one lane of their half of the roadway. Once the pedestrian is beyond one lane of their half of the roadway, the vehicles may go. Be careful when crossing. No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk, run, or otherwise move into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to stop.
Motorists Be Aware.
Stated in the RCW 46.61.245. Drivers to exercise care. Every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any obviously confused or incapacitated person upon a roadway. Crossing at other than crosswalks. Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.