People who don't look

[DdraigGoch]

Just cycled around town to do my shopping and other errands and twice had to slam on my brakes (from a not particularly high speed - 10-15mph) because men walked across the road without looking first. I don't mean "looked and failed to see", they just walked out with eyes front, not so much as a glance down the road to see if anything was coming. In this age where more and more cars are electric, one really cannot rely on being able to hear a vehicle approach.

This is on top of the frequently observed motorists (of both sexes) who pull out of junctions without looking in both directions.

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A guy once walked out in front of my db as he wasn’t looking. He admitted to the police he wasn’t watching where he was walking. He damaged my dbs car in his stupidity and then tried to claim compensation. Little did the idiot know that not only he admitted it was his fault to the police, but my db has worked in insurance fraud claims for twenty odd years. He didn’t get far.

I was going round Regent's Park outer circle today about 6pm with DD who is a reasonably experienced learner driver. Just after the giraffe house (which is having a refurb) there is a pelican crossing. The light was green and we were about the third car to go through when a beardy twat rode up to the crossing on his bike and went straight out in front of us, he was about a yard from the front of the car. Luckily DD didn't panic and stopped. He sailed off into the park and everyone nearby - pedestrians, other cyclists, car drivers (not giraffes) - stared open mouthed, horrified. Twats come in all shapes and sizes and in all modes of transport

Hugely annoying. The last person to blithely sail across the road in front of me was a cyclist.

i agree with you people seem totally ablibious to anything that is happening around them. we all need to share the roads. but for me i am visually impaired, walk with a white stick therefore i have to judge everything around me by hearing. this is a big concern to me as more and more cars become electric. yes they are quieter and maybe greener but they are not altogether safer for someone like me or an elderly person who's eyesight and hearing are not what they once were. because of this they can't always make the best judgement calls because to them they think the car is further away than it actually is. and to the posters who think we should walk everywhere well sorry but a car for me is the safest and easiest way to get to most places that are not an easy walk away. also i live in a big city if you live at one end of the city and your work is 20 odd miles away who is going to do that 5 days a week unless you really have to? the bleeping crossings were all a rage when i was a lot younger not so many but the rotating thing underneath it does as gooder job.