To wish van drivers wouldn't do this?

[girlfriend44]

Walking along the path earlier, big white van parked mounting the path. Doing a delivery no doubt.
Walked alongside it to get by, it was very.much on the pavement.
Suddenly it started moving. The driver must have been in the van, or come back to the van and started to pull off.
So the van was moving along the path while I was walking alongside it.
Didn't really get chance to say anything.
So annoyed to think for a start he /she shouldn't be parked like that in the first place.
Secondly they should have checked the wing mirror to see of anyone was coming along before they started to move off.
They could have injured me. I did take the registration down. Probably not alot I can do with it but am annoyed. A bloody big van moving along on the path. Oblivious to pedestrians!

Would you have been annoyed?
Do you experience this when out.🙄

Yes I've experienced that. Absolutely awful.
Pedestrians and their safety are at the bottom of the heap. Even when walking on pavements.

I do experience it a lot but that's because the roads are so narrow here, there are parking bays on the pavement.

I'm always a little happier when they wait for me to finish walking past, before they pull away though.

In fairness, he should have taken time to check the mirror before he pulled off.
If he had of hit me, he would have been in the wrong and caused alot more trouble for himself and me.
You have to take responsibility for your own driving.
Would he like it someone had hit his wife/daughter/ etc doing what he did?

Yes, it’s societies fault that he couldn’t take twenty seconds to do the correct observation before manoeuvring. Can’t really see that one holding up in court. If you can’t do your job effectively enough that the “odd risk” you take is putting pedestrians at serious risk of injury or death then you need a new job. On another wind up again tonight I see. 🙄