2025 Georgia Codes – Page 295

(a) For purposes of this Code section, “serious injury” shall include, but shall not be limited to, causing
bodily harm to another by depriving him or her of a member of his or her body, by rendering a member of
his or her body useless, by seriously disfiguring his or her head or body or a member thereof, or by causing
organic brain damage which renders the body or any member thereof useless.
(b) Any person who causes a serious injury to another person as a result of a collision with a motorcyclist,
bicyclist, pedestrian, or farmer operating any vehicle used to transport agricultural products, livestock,
farm machinery, or farm supplies by committing any right of way violation under this chapter when such
motorcyclist, bicyclist, pedestrian, or farmer operating any vehicle used to transport agricultural products,
livestock, farm machinery, or farm supplies is abiding by the provisions of this title shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and shall be punished:
(1) For a first offense, by a fine of not less than $250.00 in addition to any other penalties stipulated by law
and the court shall report such conviction to the Department of Driver Services; and
(2) For a second or subsequent offense within a five-year period of time, as measured from the dates of
previous arrests for which convictions were obtained or pleas of nolo contendere were accepted to the date
of the current arrest for which a conviction is obtained or a plea of nolo contendere is accepted, by a fine of
not less than $500.00 nor more than $1,000.00 and imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than
12 months. Any fine imposed under this paragraph shall be mandatory and shall not be suspended or waived
or conditioned upon the completion of any course or sentence. The court imposing punishment under this
subsection shall forward a record of the disposition of the case to the Department of Driver Services.

(a) A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device specifically applicable to him,
unless otherwise directed by a police officer.
(b) Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic and pedestrian control signals as provided in Code Sections 40-6-21
and 40-6-22.
(c) At all other places, pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and shall be subject to the restrictions
stated in this chapter.