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This happens so much on the way in and out of work, cocky brats walking into the road. Now I am not saying this is what the girl did, and the cyclist should have prepared to lock the anchors on if it looked like a collision, but from that link to the case, it tells you very little about what actually happened.
But pedestrians do not look, I had 3 walk out into the road this morning, these worse offenders are the idiots who get half way, then take a step back and you don't know where they're gonna go! While I feel sorry for the parents, do they know the daughter was actually being a 'safe' pedestrian, not sure why they branded the cyclist "an arrogant, vile little man". It reads in the second link like she stepped out into the road and he decided to pass to the left, at which point she went back to the kerb, sound pretty dangerous to me.
Maybe he should have got a harsher sentance/fine, but I know there have been numerous occasions where I have done the same thing, because you get fed up with other road users.