(A) When traffic-control signs are not in place or not in operation, 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 when:
(1) The pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling; or
(2) The pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite edge of the roadway as to be in danger.
(B) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety or walk or run into the path of the vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield. Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk, or any unmarked crosswalk, at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross a roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake to pass the stopped vehicle.
(Prior Code, § 16-1605) Penalty, see § 70.999