At that same high-income crosswalk, researchers found, significantly more motorists drove through the crosswalk while the black pedestrian was already in the road compared to the white pedestrian - a 7:1 ratio. However, it was a different story once the pedestrians stepped into the road.
UNLV researchers have been studying pedestrian bias in crosswalks.Ĭredit: R.
The study found that, at the high-income crosswalk, drivers were slightly less likely to yield for the white pedestrian waiting curbside (47 percent of the time) than the black pedestrian (55 percent of the time). Scientists examined two driving behaviors: At the high-income crosswalk, significantly more motorists drove through the crosswalk while the black pedestrian was already in the road.
