They weren't on the crossing, or they ran the light. The preliminary table will say so. If you were going too fast, the lights were wrong at night, or you turned without stopping, a court can still weigh both sides. Shared fault under the Civil Code cuts the amount. It doesn't erase the driver's job to watch the road.
A bad crash in the news is even less something you close with 'they shouldn't have been in the road'. A death or a serious injury is not the same list as a scraped bumper. I'm not going to tell you the pedestrian was fully at fault.
What you can do first
- 01Keep the signal timing, the crossing, and anything blocking the view, in photos or video.
- 02If a person is hurt, get them treated. File the compulsory claim and the fault split separately.
- 03Don't stand there and make them say they crossed on their own.
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Rewritten in my own words. Not a judgment and not a law firm's article. If a number shows up, it belonged to that public discussion, not to you. Check the Judicial Yuan judgment system. These started as public discussions of car crashes. I rewrote them here. Not a law firm's article.
I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not a mediator. I can't decide this for you. The statute that counts is the one still in force. Judgments live on the Judicial Yuan site.