O peão atravessou fora da passadeira, e a motorista teve de travar logo.

Yes. Peão can mean different things depending on context:

• pedestrian
• pawn in chess
• in some contexts, a manual labourer or farm worker

In this sentence, because of atravessou and passadeira, it clearly means pedestrian.

Atravessou is the pretérito perfeito in European Portuguese, usually translated as the simple past in English:

• atravessar = to cross
• atravessou = he/she/it crossed

Here it refers to one completed action in the past: the pedestrian crossed.

Portuguese often leaves out an object if it is obvious from context.

So o peão atravessou can naturally mean the pedestrian crossed, with the idea of crossed the road/street understood.

English often prefers to state the object more explicitly, but Portuguese does not always need it.

Fora da passadeira literally means outside the crossing or off the crosswalk.

Breakdown:

• fora de = outside of
• a passadeira = the crosswalk
• de + a = da

So:

• fora da passadeira = outside the crosswalk / not using the crosswalk

In European Portuguese, passadeira commonly means a pedestrian crossing / crosswalk / zebra crossing.

This is very common in Portugal. In Brazilian Portuguese, you are more likely to hear faixa de pedestres.

So this is a good example of Portugal-specific vocabulary.

No. Motorista is one of those nouns whose form stays the same for both male and female people. The article shows the gender:

• o motorista = the male driver
• a motorista = the female driver

So in this sentence, a motorista tells you the driver was a woman.

Teve de means had to.

It comes from:

• ter de + infinitive = to have to do something

So:

• teve de travar = had to brake

This is very common in European Portuguese. You may also hear ter que, but ter de is especially standard and very common in Portugal.

Because this sentence describes a specific completed event.

• teve de travar = she had to brake at that moment
• tinha de travar would sound more like an ongoing, repeated, or background obligation

So teve de fits a single event in the story: the pedestrian crossed improperly, and then the driver had to brake.

Yes. In driving contexts, travar can mean to brake or to apply the brakes.

So:

• travar = to brake
• teve de travar = had to brake

Be careful: travar can also have other meanings in other contexts, such as to jam, to lock, or to engage. But with a driver and a road situation, brake is the natural meaning.

Here logo means immediately, right away, or straight away.

So:

• teve de travar logo = had to brake immediately

This is not the English word logo meaning a brand symbol.

In Portuguese, logo often refers to something happening very soon or right away.

The comma is possible here because the sentence joins two full clauses, each with its own subject:

• O peão atravessou fora da passadeira
• a motorista teve de travar logo

In Portuguese, a comma before e is not always required, but it is often used when:

• the clauses are longer
• the subjects are different
• the writer wants a clearer pause

So the comma here is natural and helps readability.