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Pedestrian hit by biker - biker trying to claim from pedestrian
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Sgt_Pepper wrote: »Pedestrian has right of way when crossing a side road.
A pedestrian always has right of way, thought you'd know that.0 -
Even if they do [and I'm skeptical] , it doesn't absolve them from claims if they have been negligent, and damaged somebody's property as a result.societys_child wrote: »A pedestrian always has right of way, thought you'd know that.0 -
Are we confusing right of way with priority? I didn't think right of way was the correct legal jargon anymore?societys_child wrote: »A pedestrian always has right of way, thought you'd know that.0 -
societys_child wrote: »A pedestrian always has right of way, thought you'd know that.
Post the link to support that.0 -
johnfarquhar74 wrote: »Are we confusing right of way with priority? I didn't think right of way was the correct legal jargon anymore?
"priority IF IT IS SAFE" And there has never been a right of way in this context.
The graveyards are full of those who had the right of way."If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling0 -
no by sounds of it she just looked at the red light for the traffic and assumed it was for both lanes and didnt bother to wait for the green man on the crossing-if it was a crossing and not just a junction0
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Of course a pedestrian always has right of way -
You are not allowed to just drive into them!
It's quite simple really if you think about it.
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societys_child wrote: »Of course a pedestrian always has right of way -
You are not allowed to just drive into them!
It's quite simple really if you think about it.
Come on, that's a load of smelly brown stuff.0 -
societys_child wrote: »Of course a pedestrian always has right of way -
You are not allowed to just drive into them!
It's quite simple really if you think about it.
Do you tell your kids to run across roads because they will have the right of way and drivers are not allowed to just drive in to them?"If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling0 -
Come on, that's a load of smelly brown stuff.
How is it?
You're driving, someone steps out into the road, what do you do?
Do you drive into them, or do you stop? Hopefully you stop.
If you stop you've given them "right of way"
In the mid 60's an instructor asked me "When does a pedestrian have right of way" I thought about it, pulled a face and he said "They always have right of way" He then added "There's an examiner who likes to throw that question in"
Within the past two years I was told by an insurance examiner that in a pedestrian vs motor vehicle collision, a court will 99.9% of the time come down on the side of the pedestrian because . . . a pedestrian always has right of way.
It's nothing new and nothing that's gone out of fashion.
You have to avoid knocking people down, therefore you have to give them right of way.
I don't believe how you find this so hard to understand.0
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