{"id":26366,"date":"2026-03-25T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=26366"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:13:11","slug":"tennessee-tech-police-department-know-tennessees-pedestrian-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2026\/people\/tennessee-tech-police-department-know-tennessees-pedestrian-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Tech Police Department: Know Tennessee\u2019s Pedestrian Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Tennessee<\/span><\/span>, pedestrians have the right-of-way in marked crosswalks and at intersections\u2014but safety is a shared responsibility. Always use crosswalks when available and obey pedestrian signals. Don\u2019t suddenly step into traffic. Make eye contact with drivers before crossing. Drivers must yield to pedestrians in crosswalks and exercise due care to avoid collisions. Stay alert, heads up, phones down, and help keep everyone safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tennessee, pedestrians have the right-of-way in marked crosswalks and at intersections\u2014but safety is a shared responsibility. Always use crosswalks when available and obey pedestrian signals. Don\u2019t suddenly step into traffic. Make eye contact with drivers before crossing. Drivers must yield to pedestrians in crosswalks and exercise due care to avoid collisions. Stay alert, heads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":26367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-26366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/2026-03-03_69a6f83fbf260_Screenshot2026-03-03082902.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions\/26404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}