Hit pedestrian today..feel quite bad

NiallBoo

JBokeh wrote: »

I was under the impression that as soon as a pedestrian sets foot onto the road they have right of way

The rules say that you have to "give way to more vulnerable road users"; I don't know if they say anything more specific than that.

Obviously when you're driving that means everyone that isn't you but from a cyclists point of view I don't know who that would be (IMO a cyclist is usually more vulnerable than a pedestrian as they're likely to suffer more damage).

Kaisr Sose

NiallBoo wrote: »

The rules say that you have to "give way to more vulnerable road users"; I don't know if they say anything more specific than that.

Obviously when you're driving that means everyone that isn't you but from a cyclists point of view I don't know who that would be (IMO a cyclist is usually more vulnerable than a pedestrian as they're likely to suffer more damage).

A pedestrian is also expected to take reasonable care for his or her own safety. A fact lost on many.

Last week a guy walked across in front of me narrowly avoiding my front wheel ( pedestrian light was red) . He then proceeded to tell me to f off.

Just another day on the roads!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

fiachr_a wrote: »

Get a bell.

:rolleyes:

Zyzz

NotCominBack wrote: »

Absolutely sir, have the letters after my name and the pieces of paper if you would like to examine them. Thread makes me cringe for those cyclists who live in the realm of the current world around us.

Your username will be slightly ironic if you keep posting the way that you are..

CramCycle

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pablo128

I knocked down a woman at Houston station about 20 years ago. The usual, she walked out without looking. I didn't even have time to hit the brakes. I remember having a good westerly wind behind me and I was absolutely rocking along. I hit her, she went down, the bike landed on top of her and I landed on the bike and the whole assembly skidded about 10 foot along the road. She was knocked clean out. Some fella who said he worked with her tended to her till she woke up, and then carried her across the road. I think he said they worked in the building opposite. I was still standing there shaking with the shock at this stage when a taxi driver gave me a nudge and told me to carry on.

I hit a traveller kid on the Nangor road too when they were camping on the grass verge near the 9th lock. I was booting along the cycle path when he came out from between 2 caravans. I don't mind saying I got up and went like a rocket before I got a bang of a slash hook or something!

roverrules

Can't help but notice the adjectives in so many of the previous posts!

Booting it!
Rocking along!
Absolutely lifting it!
A fair clip!
Full pelt!
Power back on!

Perhaps time to actually slow down

Lumen

roverrules wrote: »

Can't help but notice the adjectives in so many of the previous posts!

I see mostly verbs and adverbs.

tomasrojo

I "sort of" hit a girl who stepped out from in front of a stopped bus on Dame Street years ago. I did mange to stop about a millimetre in front of her, but she got unbalanced and fell back onto her bottom. She was fine and very apologetic. I wasn't going that fast, but I should have been cycling further out, but, guided by road safety orthodoxy, I used to cycle too far to the left.

CramCycle

pablo128 wrote: »

I knocked down a woman at Houston station about 20 years ago. The usual, she walked out without looking. I didn't even have time to hit the brakes. I remember having a good westerly wind behind me and I was absolutely rocking along. I hit her, she went down, the bike landed on top of her and I landed on the bike and the whole assembly skidded about 10 foot along the road. She was knocked clean out. Some fella who said he worked with her tended to her till she woke up, and then carried her across the road. I think he said they worked in the building opposite. I was still standing there shaking with the shock at this stage when a taxi driver gave me a nudge and told me to carry on.

Congrats, what you have described is a hit and run and a pretty serious crime at that.

Hopefully she was not left with serious injury, but if she was, I hope she reads this and recognises the incident.

tomasrojo wrote: »

I "sort of" hit a girl who stepped out from in front of a stopped bus on Dame Street years ago. I did mange to stop about a millimetre in front of her, but she got unbalanced and fell back onto her bottom. She was fine and very apologetic. I wasn't going that fast, but I should have been cycling further out, but, guided by road safety orthodoxy, I used to cycle too far to the left.

+1 stay out from the kerb at all times, I have seen people jump out, sprint through a crowd and a couple of times simply fall off the kerb. There is no need to be over to the left in a city centre, it doesn't impede traffic and all it really does is put you and others in more danger, even if you think it won't. I imagine most of the incidents described thus far would have been easily avoided if people were cycling further to the centre of the lane.