If you're travelling fast enough on your vehicle when approaching a group of human beings crossing the road, to not be able to stop and end up knocking someone to the ground, I would think that you're doing the whole cycling in public thing wrong.
@Vesalius started
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If you're travelling fast enough on your vehicle when approaching a group of human beings crossing the road, to not be able to stop and end up knocking someone to the ground, I would think that you're doing the whole cycling in public thing wrong.