Investigating Drivers’ Behaviour at Non-Signalised Pedestrian Crossings

Pedestrian safety is one of the most serious problems in Estonian traffic. Thus, every third person killed on the roads is a pedestrian. The main aim of this paper was to find which factors could affect drivers’ attitude to give way to pedestrians at non-signalized crossings. Data gathered indicates that the main factor influencing drivers' willingness to give way at non-signalized urban crossings was motor vehicle traffic volume. The second part of the study involves drivers speed choice at pedestrian crossings. The situation is especially critical at the crossings with speed limit of 70 km/h. On these sites an average speed is dangerously high at the whole vicinity of zebra crossing and does not allow breaking safely when driver occurs the pedestrian waiting at the roadside.