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My point is I'm not keen on getting run over by whatever vehicle is behind me because some idiot crosses the road on a green without looking. I'm on a bicycle, I'm not in a car, if I get rear ended it's going to hurt.
Clearly your mind is made up but in the interests of your readers' safety, I would ask them to consider what it would feel like to have a 90kg (say) dead weight catapulted into your face at 30 mph (say). Because that's what it will feel like to hit a pedestrian if you don't brake. You should expect some amounts of injury and death. In practice, the pedestrian is unlikely to run out in front of this hypothetical car behind you, but if they do, the driver will likely be braking too. Head-on impacts are to be avoided; better to take your chances with a possible clip from behind.
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damosuzuki
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I just saw this. You can invent any scenario with any outcome possible if you want to in about 2 seconds, it could be Dale Winton pushing a trolley full of frozen turkeys across Elephant & Castle during rush hour, I don't care.
My point is I'm not keen on getting run over by whatever vehicle is behind me because some idiot crosses the road on a green without looking. I'm on a bicycle, I'm not in a car, if I get rear ended it's going to hurt.