&gt; and told me that you have to always stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk regardless of the traffic signal<p>Well she&#x27;s right; of course you have to stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk. You can&#x27;t wilfully hit  someone and just say &#x27;my right of way&#x27; and be all in the clear.<p>I think in the UK pedestrians actually always have priority, as long as they are travelling in a straight line and you as a driver are making some kind of turn. So for example a road joining another road at a T junction, pedestrians crossing the joining road have priority over cars, regardless of lights or markings.