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I had an accident where a ped ran out at a crossing where I had a green traffic light. They were shocked and bruised, I had to have an op on my knee. I don't really want to rehash it but you're on the right track. They were put in the ambulance and I was questioned and breathalised before the policeman realised I had a pretty bad injury and was only walking and talking because of the adrenaline.
My own conclusion as I lay in the ambulance was wishing I had been going a bit slower and a bit further from the kerb. I would normally have been.
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I still have scars from one of many such encounters... a few years ago being far from the kerb, nowhere near the crossing, and a very large lump darting in front of me. I literally bounced off the person, and got pretty knocked by it, and they shrugged and grunted at me.
I had already slowed down because of a car moments earlier, but the force the pedestrian accelerated their body to cross the road was enough to damage my kneecap.
I would have been going slower had it been a crossing. Since it wasn’t, there needed to be some other excuse why i was at fault whenever I recounted the event to someone.
pdlouche
But if a motorcyclist collides with a phone-staring-beelining pedestrian in a somewhat unavoidable collision at a somewhat reasonable speed having taken most/every option to avoid it, is it treated as (tragic) accident, or a witch hunt?
I meant very much the perception of motorcyclists, rather than the reality. That is, where the perception may be of greater sympathy to their vulnerability and the reality that the risks taken are often entirely avoidable.
I find it difficult to believe if at an equivalent speed a motorcyclist was hit by a pedestrian, and they both needed hospital treatment, the arguments presented would be the same or reach the same verdict.