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The first part of the highway code is the introduction. The second part is Rules for Pedestrians.
but even parts of the highway code that do not relate to specific offences can be used in court to establish liability. See the third paragraph of the introduction.
Morally, it's harder to ascribe much fault to her. As the role of pedestrian is open to the public without training, it is unreasonable to expect pedestrians to have intimate knowledge of either the highway code or the blind spots of lorries with particular configurations of mirrors. Lorries with high cabs are significantly different from other vehicles, even other long vehicles like buses. They need to be treated differently by other road users, but lorries are just rare enough for people not to realise this. They are an anomaly that continues to kill people.
I think this was an awful, needless loss of life, and i wish Coroners would question the suitability of lorries for our roads, beyond whether they happen to meet the rules currently in force.