Driving around in cities I know we’ve always had to be on the watch out for careless pedestrians.
But one thing I notice more often, particularly in the congested parts of London, is that whenever I drive past crowded pedestrian crossing points there usually seems to be someone right at the edge of the kerb with his head down paying more attention to their mobile phone than the wing mirrors of vehicles whizzing past them maybe inches away.
I don’t know whether there are any statistics for these sorts of accidents but I’m sure there must be an increasing number of ‘knock-downs’ by wing mirrors for that very reason.
I had an idiot walk in to my nearside mirror when I was on the buses. Just pulling in and he decides to turn round and walk at me. I didn’t feel a thing.
Used to happen all the time on the buses. Some stops had a camber in the road so the bus would lean over the pavement. Quite a regular spot to hit people on the head with the mirror was outside the hospital.
The thing that annoyed me more was the young mums who would push the buggy on to the road while they stood on the pavement at the edge of the crossing.
m1cks:
The thing that annoyed me more was the young mums who would push the buggy on to the road while they stood on the pavement at the edge of the crossing.
Hate this, whether its at a crossing or trying to cross between parked cars, the baby buggy is the first thing in the danger zone, these parents should quite literally ‘think of the children’.
Whatever about that, it’s the dozy bints that have the push chair almost dangling in the road waiting to cross that winds me up, the other half needs to give them a stern talking to.
One of my uncles got scalped by a bus in Nottingham in the 90’s. ■■■■■■ the daft ■■■■ right up, and he has the cheek too put in a damages claim which he received a massive payout for!
m1cks:
Used to happen all the time on the buses. Some stops had a camber in the road so the bus would lean over the pavement. Quite a regular spot to hit people on the head with the mirror was outside the hospital.
The thing that annoyed me more was the young mums who would push the buggy on to the road while they stood on the pavement at the edge of the crossing.
Or standing with his back to the road while chatting with someone
Or walking along the curb/crossing junction in Hoodies and Headphones
And so on…
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Mario
