This morning I watched a cyclist being involved in an accident with a pedestrian.
The scenario was a lightly used road leading on a large roundabout with lights at each entrance to the roundabout. The lights had changed to green, and the waiting vehicles had already entered. As there's no other traffic visible within 50m, like many others I walked across. On getting to the other side of this single lane road, I spot a cyclist on the road at about 20mph.
Turning around, I watched said cyclist very nearly collect the half asleep pedestrian who'd been strolling the other way across the road.
Now in theory, the cyclist is in the right, as he was on a green light. Having said that, we are talking about London, and if I'd driven around only obeying green lights, I'm sure that I would have run over hundreds of zombies walking around.
This kind of thing really really annoys me, as the cyclist in question could have really hurt the pedestrian. Luckily, he took a tumble to avoid the pedestrian, but I know that this isn't always the case. Just when will these people realise that they do need to apply a modicum of common sense.
The scenario was a lightly used road leading on a large roundabout with lights at each entrance to the roundabout. The lights had changed to green, and the waiting vehicles had already entered. As there's no other traffic visible within 50m, like many others I walked across. On getting to the other side of this single lane road, I spot a cyclist on the road at about 20mph.
Turning around, I watched said cyclist very nearly collect the half asleep pedestrian who'd been strolling the other way across the road.
Now in theory, the cyclist is in the right, as he was on a green light. Having said that, we are talking about London, and if I'd driven around only obeying green lights, I'm sure that I would have run over hundreds of zombies walking around.
This kind of thing really really annoys me, as the cyclist in question could have really hurt the pedestrian. Luckily, he took a tumble to avoid the pedestrian, but I know that this isn't always the case. Just when will these people realise that they do need to apply a modicum of common sense.