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@ChasnotRobert
I am not a lawyer etc but my immediate reaction is that there is a higher duty of care on someone operating a 40 tonne vehicle for commercial purposes than there is on a member of the public going about on a cycle.
This leads me to question whether 70/30 is reasonable. If a ped had stepped out as the light went green and got run over, would we apportion some of the blame on them? (Perhaps we would or should - genuine question)
We are expected to protect people from their own stupidity, the argument "they shouldn't have been there in the first place" is rarely acceptable.