MUMBAI: Cautioning jaywalkers, a magistrate’s court this week acquitted a 65-year-old woman, booked in 2011 for ramming into a pedestrian at Marine Drive, after it found that he was crossing the road when the signal was green. “It is successfully brought on record that her ( Kalpana Marchant ) defence is probable that her driving was not rash but the accident took place due to rashness and sudden crossing of road on the part of deceased Sadanand Bhatde ,” the court said.Marchant had halted after the accident near Kaivalyadham on the evening of January 22, 2011, and Bhatde was lying unconscious. Police took him to Saifee hospital, where he succumbed to injuries. Marchant was booked for rash driving and causing death by negligence.Among the three witnesses were two cops and an eyewitness. The eyewitness told court that he was driving his car in the middle lane. He said a pedestrian crossed the road when the signal was green, and he was hit by a car from the lane on the right.Relying on the witness, the court said he did not mention anything about the accused being rash or negligent. The court pointed out that the witness admitted that Marchant and he were driving at normal speed and the pedestrian came from the left of the road. “All these facts continuously point towards the sudden action of the victim in crossing from a place without a zebra-crossing. Such zebra-crossing is meant for crossing by pedestrians and they are only supposed to cross the road by it,” the court said.The court said it had come on record from evidence of the eyewitness that the signal was green when the victim was crossing. “Indirectly, it suggests that the deceased was crossing the road from the place not meant for crossing, and that too when he was supposed to stop, due to having a green signal for vehicular traffic,” the court said.“Hence, considering all the facts, it is clearly visible, but there is nothing on record to show that the accused was driving the vehicle either in a rash or negligent manner,” the court said.