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Glad you're OK. But yes, remember that no matter what those markings may indicate, it's a shared-use path in a park and pedestrians, whether human or canine, should be given priority.
I take it BobbyBriggs was referring to you and your bike here?
Saw a green single speed with a brown Brooks being loaded into the back of an ambulance just by the Pub in the Park entrance to London Fields - hope whoever it is is ok!
Oliver Schick-
Yes if that was you, glad you're ok. Take it easy during the recovery.
I know that path is shared use, but it does dismay me that people can't keep their dogs under control sufficiently around it. https://www.hackney.gov.uk/dogs-in-parks
BobbyBriggs
Fractured my hand and clearly suffered a minor head injury on the commute this morning. I was cycling along the bike lane in London Fields when a dog ran out into the bike lane right in front of me, and then stopped dead. I braked, my front wheel locked, and I went over the handlebars.
A couple stopped and helped me, very kindly, and a few minutes after they left I started to have some pretty fearsome visual disturbances, so once they had subsided to the point where I could unlock my phone, I called an ambulance. The paramedics were super, as were the staff in A&E at Homerton Hospital.
Clearly my fault - I wasn't going that fast, but was not mindful of the fact that my view of the path was obscured by people on the ped side. The dog shot out from behind those people as I drew level, giving me too little space to stop safely.