A. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this chapter, 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 where necessary, and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing on a roadway any child or any incapacitated person or any person carrying a cane as described in subsection B of this section, or any person being accompanied by a guide dog.
B. A person wholly or partially blind, and with no other person, may carry a cane or walking stick, white in color, or white tipped with red, and seven-eighths (7/8) of an inch or more in diameter, as a means of protection and identification as an indication to all traffic to exercise extraordinary care to avoid accidents. (Prior code § 46-17-268)