On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:14:28 +0000, Stevie D <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:Tony Raven said:In court Brady admitted he was going fast, admitted that he saw them
and that her husband had already reached the far side of the road when
he hit her and that he thought she should have conceded right of way
to him.
So what? It doesn't matter who has right of way - once someone is *in*
your way, you do everything you can to avoid hitting them.
It's quite hard to visualise this accident.
The only times I can think of when you would hit a pedestrian on the road
(assuming you were not forced to change course by some thid party) would be:
1) If you are travelling too fast to stop in the distance you could see to be
clear.
2) If the pedestrian suddenly changes speed or direction (including stepping in
front of you from stationary)
A normal lane is quite wide enough to pass a pedestrian with ample clearance and
it is an easy matter to gauge which side to pass (provided they move at
constant(ish) speed).
In many years of cycling the only times I've even had to brake for errant peds
were on a couple of occasions when they started crossing the road without
looking and then froze when their peripheral vision picked me up.
A friend of mine complains about pedestrians stepping off the pavement into her
path, but she will insist in riding in the gutter also 1 foot from a line of
parked cars) and nothing I can say will persuade her to change her positioning.
She has hit a pedestrian on occasion.
