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Sid Squid · 01-05-14, 11:53 AM

Why? He's not doing anything illegal, and she ran into traffic without looking. They're in the road, not on the pavement.

It's quite true to say that his obs should have been good enough to have seen that coming, she's quite clearly looking in the other direction and is hurrying, but that doesn't absolve her of her responsibility to pay attention when walking into the road, and in traffic too!
Note also the hopelessly predictable and lazy accusation of his speeding - she hadn't even seen him, how could she have been able to judge how fast he was going? If he had been travelling at any speed she wouldn't just have got up and hurried away.

01-05-14, 11:53 AM	#3
Sid Squid No, I don't lend tools. Mega Poster Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Skunk Works, Nth London Posts: 8,680	Re: how not to filter and make friends with pedestrians Why? He's not doing anything illegal, and she ran into traffic without looking. They're in the road, not on the pavement. It's quite true to say that his obs should have been good enough to have seen that coming, she's quite clearly looking in the other direction and is hurrying, but that doesn't absolve her of her responsibility to pay attention when walking into the road, and in traffic too! Note also the hopelessly predictable and lazy accusation of his speeding - she hadn't even seen him, how could she have been able to judge how fast he was going? If he had been travelling at any speed she wouldn't just have got up and hurried away. __________________ If an SV650 has a flat tyre in the forest and no-one is there to blow it up, how long will it be 'til someone posts that the reg/rec is duff and the world will end unless a CBR unit is fitted? A little bit of knowledge = a dangerous thing. "a deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst"