(A) Application. Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic-control signals, but, at all other places, shall be granted those rights and be subject to those restrictions in this section.
(`85 Code, § 22-90)
(B) Regulations.
(1) When traffic-control signals are not in place or 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.
(2) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave any place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle.
(3) No children shall play in or on any public street.
(4) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
(`85 Code, § 22-91)
(C) Drivers to exercise due care. Notwithstanding divisions (A) and (B) of this section, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway, shall give warning by sounding the horn where necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or confused or incapacitated person upon a roadway.
(`85 Code, § 22-92)