"Alex" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> One of my biggest pet peeves is people who cut across the parking lot
> instead of following the marked lines... and I was curious if one
> person is following the painted marks correctly and some bozo decides
> to race across the parking lot or cut between cars instead of going the
> proper way, and they collide, who's at fault?
>
> What prompted this question is my wife was driving in the local mall
> parking lot and some such bozo came very close to hitting her while
> driving through open parking slots instead of following the painted
> lines. If she had been hit, are there laws that would've been in her
> favor since she was driving properly and the bozo wasn't? Are parking
> lot rules assumed or is there more legally to it? I guess not unlike a
> Stop sign in a parking lot, if someone runs it is this breaking the law
> if the Stop sign was placed there by the Mall and not the city or
> state's DoT?

In some jurisdictions, the property owner can, by means of posting signs,
opt to have private property treated like public streets as far as traffic
laws are concerned. That's why people can get citations for running stop
signs at some malls.

I guess that the painted parking spaces and lanes created rights of way, but
I'm just guessing.

This answer must not be relied on as legal advice for the reasons posted
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McGyver