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The phrase "a pedestrian down" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a pedestrian who is moving down a street or path, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "As I walked through the city, I noticed a pedestrian down the street waiting to cross."
Alternatives: "a person walking down" or "a walker down the road".
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California Highway Patrol officers and paramedics responded to the northbound side of the freeway near Alameda Street about 6 30 p.m. after a caller reported a "pedestrian down in the roadway," according to the CHP.
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"There is no [beach access] sign on the metal pedestrian gate and a metal vehicle gate on Coast Highway". There is a coastal access sign about 300 or 400 feet from the highway, which cannot be seen unless a pedestrian walks down the roadway, Carter said.
One example in 1846 was when two cart drivers engaged in a race in which a pedestrian was knocked down and killed.
The plan announced by Mayor Bloomberg and the city police commissioner, Raymond J. Kelly, calls for channeling commuters coming out of Pennsylvania Station to a pedestrian corridor down 32nd Street and setting up a barricaded lane in front of the Garden on Seventh Avenue.
The vehicle was on fire as it veered on to the pavement and knocked pedestrians down before coming to a stop outside a Starbucks coffee shop, witnesses said.
(We had walked down a long, uncomfortably steep cobblestoned road to get there, not knowing that there is, in fact, an elevator available to ferry pedestrians down and up).
The eclipse of the Liberal party by Labour in the early 20th century was likened at the time to the fate of a healthy pedestrian mown down by a runaway omnibus.
She had grown up in Australia where she was the first woman motorist to run down a pedestrian.
She cannot even stand near the bench, so she affects constant motion, like a pedestrian walking up and down the boulevard to avoid a loitering charge.
For instance, if a self-driving vehicle decides to run down a pedestrian, who will be held accountable?
A pedestrian who was knocked down by a cyclist in a suspected hit-and-run last month has died.
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