According to the RA Law on Ensuring Road Traffic Safety, pedestrians are equated with:

Explanation

Both groups are equated with pedestrians: persons with disabilities moving in non-motorised wheelchairs, and persons pushing or pulling a cart, a sledge, a pram or a wheelchair.

The legislator's criterion for "being equated with a pedestrian" is speed and vulnerability, not whether the person is pulling or pushing something. Someone wheeling a pram or a handcart moves at walking pace, has no protective body around them, and suffers the same injury in a collision as an ordinary pedestrian. A non-motorised wheelchair is likewise driven by human muscle, not an engine. If we counted these people as "drivers", they would legally be obliged to travel on the carriageway in the direction of traffic — an outcome that would defeat the law's purpose of protecting the most vulnerable road users.

Know the boundary: the presence of a motor changes the definition. By the same logic a motorised wheelchair is no longer a pedestrian. Likewise a person seated on a bicycle is a driver, but once he dismounts and pushes the bicycle he moves as a pedestrian. For a driver this means: at a pedestrian crossing, give a pram or a wheelchair exactly the priority you would give a pedestrian.

• Correct but incomplete; it names only one of the two groups the law equates with pedestrians. • This too is part of the answer, but it leaves out persons with disabilities in non-motorised wheelchairs.

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