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Interestingly enough, something of this nature happened to me not too long ago. I was driving home from the office and got off of Lake Shore Drive at my normal exit. There is a crosswalk on one side and a continuous sidewalk on the other (there's on entrance ramp back onto the Drive there). As I approached the crosswalk, a runner started across and I had to slam on the brakes. Thankfully I have anti-lock brakes, but it was a close thing. I started to blow my horn and yell at her but realized that I was 100% in the wrong. She's a pedestrian in an uncontrolled, clearly marked crosswalk, which gives her the right-of-way 100% of the time.
As much as I wanted to blame her, I couldn't.
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