NOUN
- an acronym for pedestrian light control; a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights that are controlled by pedestrians
How To Use pelican crossing In A Sentence
- They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
- The woman and her son were caught between the car and the traffic lights at the pelican crossing at the junction of the two roads.
- It was also hazardous for pedestrians to cross Cemetery Road, and she suggested traffic lights and a pelican crossing were needed.
- I have, on one occasion, started to cross a pelican crossing and a car jumped the red lights and nearly hit me.
- Katie said she regularly crossed at the pelican crossing near the Odeon cinema where a black Fiat Punto struck her.
- Crossing back over the pelican crossing, I read the letters page as I walked up Malone Avenue. MUSIC FOR BOYS
- Speakers urged the county council to provide pedestrians with a bridge, an underpass or a pelican crossing to prevent another accident.
- The elderly find it dangerous to cross the road at a pelican crossing or a zebra crossing because of speeding vehicles.
- A girl told today how a driver knocked her down and then stared coldly into her eyes as she lay on a pelican crossing.
- Another idea is to move the pelican crossing outside the garage to the east of the entrance because it is seen as a hive of anti-social behaviour.