Pedestrian Accident Claims in Oklahoma

Where traffic signals are not in place or not working, drivers must yield (slowing or stopping if needed) to a pedestrian in a crosswalk who is on the driver's half of the road or approaching so closely from the other half as to be in danger. A pedestrian may not suddenly leave a curb into the path of a vehicle so close that the driver cannot yield. A pedestrian crossing anywhere other than a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection must yield to vehicles, and between adjacent intersections with working signals pedestrians may cross only in a marked crosswalk. Drivers may not pass a vehicle stopped at a crosswalk to let a pedestrian cross.

Modified comparative negligence (51% bar). An injured person's own negligence does not bar recovery unless it is of greater degree than the negligence of the person causing the harm, or greater than the combined negligence of all persons causing it. The statute covers personal injury, wrongful death and property damage claims.

Every owner must keep liability security on a registered vehicle. A motor vehicle liability policy must provide at least $25,000 for bodily injury or death of one person, $50,000 for bodily injury or death of two or more people in one accident, and $25,000 for property damage.

Two years for an action for injury to the rights of another not arising from a contract, which covers most negligence-based injury claims. Assault, battery, libel, slander, malicious prosecution and false imprisonment have a one-year deadline.