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stevo_com-
I'm going by the legislation which states you have to wait for the peds to finish crossing.
Though it's fucking ages since I bothered looking it up.
Here we are:
"25.—(1) Every pedestrian, if he is on the carriageway within the limits of a Zebra crossing, which is not for the time being controlled by a constable in uniform or traffic warden, before any part of a vehicle has entered those limits, shall have precedence within those limits over that vehicle and the driver of the vehicle shall accord such precedence to any such pedestrian."
Backstop
The area of the crossing is out of bounds while a ped is crossing, makes sense to block out a large area on safety grounds.