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@youramericanlover
Yeah I smashed into a ped on while in that fucking awful narrow cemented-in cycle lane going east to west crossing over Tottenham CtR. Was mid green when I was going through (to account for my relative speed) and my yell beforehand cleared the crossing except for one chap who had his headphones in. He feighted backwards, then forwards so and then right into me.
I had right of way so feel fine about continuing through and so am techincally not at fault (I'd say) - but I also know it's a notorious crossing for people ignoring the signal. So although I was really fucked off for wrecking in the first place and secondly at his inattentive walking, there is still a part of me realises the collision occured in part because of my lack of care for zombie peds.
tl;dr
I had right of way, but I could have maybe prevented the collision by knowing peds better than they know themselves.