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The basic mode of transportation from one place to other is to walk. In the present scenario where the focus is high on sustainability, walkability and multi-modal transportation in urban infrastructure; it is time to understand how well these will merge with the existing culture of the road users; both pedestrians as well as drivers. With this work the aim is to understand one aspect, the pedestrianvehicle interaction at unsignalized mid-block pedestrian crosswalks. An attempt to study the yielding behaviour of drivers to a pedestrian waiting to cross is made. The study is conducted in the undivided two lane city roads of Kochi. Four locations viz., three crosswalks at Park Avenue Road and one at NH 85 are chosen as part of the study. Video survey, radar gun and manual methods were used for data collection. The analysis is using non-parametric tests for the various variables which were coded and extracted from the collected data. Specific outcome of this study include analysis of the driver and pedestrian behaviour and the characteristics that contribute to yielding of drivers. The observations showed 28.71% soft or rolling yield and that yield of the driver depended on speed of the vehicle, and assertiveness of the pedestrian.