A lot of teams have trouble getting a side together at all to dance, let alone finding someone to act as traffic cop!!! Funny though, mention a subsidised/free trip abroad to a country with lots of beer and old members are crawling out of the woodwork to join.....

And yes, as a pedestrian, the dancer has right of way, and will not be charged with obstruction or jaywalking, unless there are police controls in force. Any accident would be the driver's fault unless the dancers were doing it in a silly place, like, oooh, say, the bottom of the hairpin hill, by the harbour at Robin Hood's Bay, where visibility is about 6 feet round the corner for a good 50 - 75 yards. Then there would need to be someone on point duty, for everyone's safety!

Every team that dances in public should have public liability insurance. Even sitting on the side, accidents can happen, especially if the dancers 'drift' - a phenomenon that usually only happens where there is a big space to dance in..... I had my glasses broken by a long sword that got swung too vigourously, by a team that were about 15feet away from me when they started, but drifted over and I had nowhere to back off to. Lucky I was wearing the glasses, because the sword could have broken my nose or smashed that delicate bit just above the cheekbone, on the temple.....

LTS