Aibu zebra crossing incident

[Marie5678]

Yesterday on the school run I was walking home the kids stopped at the zebra crossing I was a few steps behind they were waiting for the go ahead. Obviously it's a zebra crossing drivers are supposed to stop given this zebra crossing is right next to the school you would expect people to be more aware.

Once we caught up with the kids (so to speak) were only 5 steps behind so wasn't really catching up we said OK cross. There was a car coming a few metres away and we were already on the crossing when a lady was not looking where she was going didn't stop until we shouted stop at the zebra crossing while also dragging the kids back. Now luckily the kids stopped and she did but she then proceeded to huff and puff and gesture us to carry on in a way that seemed more of an inconvenience to her. She was clearly late to pick up her child and was rushing.

Now this pissed me off I won't lie the fact she was almost annoyed she had to let us go annoyed me too. She parked in a space closest to the side walk to get to the other school and rushed off. At this point I will as still angry as she literally didn't even acknowledge what she had done so approached her as she got out of the car and asked her why she was not paying attention and not even apologising for the fact she nearly hit the kids she proceeded to almost run off and I said your behaviour was disgusting and she should be ashamed of herself. Now admittedly I was angry but I was not aggressive but aibu to have called her out?

We were already on the crossing given how far away she was I don't actually she a reason why she wouldn't have seen us. one of the parents who was on the side of the road closest to her said she was actually looking on her phone had I of not yelled she wouldn't have stopped as she was not paying attention I saw the car but as she was not near the crossing when we stepped on it (when I say metres I don't mean 2/3 metres she was a good 7/8 metres away and there was a zebra crossing just before the one we were at so she really should have been paying more attention in any affect.

You're meant to make sure cars have stopped or at least look like they're definitely stopping before crossing.
And it sounds like you were quite aggressive and like a dog with a bone. I hate when people keep going on at strangers when they make a mistake.

But you should make sure care are stopped before entering the crossing
In theory it's correct, legally it isn't because cars don't have to stop until someone is engaged crossing, so you could find yourself waiting quite a long time for cars on both sides to stop as indeed, it is more and more common that drivers will not bother unless they really have to.

However, the minute someone has put a foot on the crossing, they should stop. This clearly was the case as if it wasn' for OP taking measures, she would have hit the kids. She was completely in the wrong and you were absolutely right OP to give her a ear full that she couldn't even bother to apologise.

YANBU.

She deserved it. She shouldn’t have been on her phone and considering she was picking up her own child, she should know that she should be paying attention to her surroundings with it being a school zone and the school run.

Driver was in the wrong. No mitigating factors.