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Originally Posted by Paul M
and the simple fact is also that a pedestrian can control if they put themselves in front of a moving car.
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Sorry but I disagree with this, not all pedestrian related accidents are down to pedestrian walking in front of cars. It often involves red lights being run, overtaking on blind corners, cars running pelican/ zebra crossings when the pedestrian has right of way. Of course there are also cases where Jo Public decides to ignore common sense and walks into traffic but it's not always within the pedestrians control whether they are in front of a moving car.
I'm not even going to try and count the number of times I've gone to cross a road at the appropiate place with the green man lit and the red light against traffic only to have to jump back on the pavement when someone decides that 100 yards just isn't enough distance to react in
