Pedestrians have no concept of danger these days, they don’t look around them and are often in a world of their own listening to music on their ear pieces or mobile phones. They think that because they are on the pavement* nothing will happen to them and they are either looking down or just blindly looking ahead, enough not to walk into people.
They don’t understand the risks, they don’t look around and consider things and they don’t really care, they just want to get from A to B in their own way.
Thanks in part to the overuse of H&S with flashing lights, warning buzzers, tones and horns and other things to warn them the often don’t think or even understand how it will effect them. Those warning devices are now all but useless because no one takes any notice do they?
How many times have drivers here said ‘I got to the yard and couldn’t find anyone whilst wearing this hi-vis jacket but take it off and several appear at once to tell me off’
I’ve been in a HIAB this week, driving down narrow lanes and roads and have on numerous times in the dapple wooded area with sunbeams lancing through the leaves had my headlights on, mostly as I’m slightly over the white line to stop knocking the mirror out of alignment. The headlight is to warn those ahead but I have still had a few times when people have tried to squeeze past without thinking.
Then there are those numpties walking under the boom, ducking under red and white barrier tape just to save having to walk around the other side of the lorry. Reversing is no better either, and they just don’t care.
‘Oh, I didn’t see you there mate’ will no doubt be the response as you crush someone between a wall and your lorry. I have had a woman leave her pram sitting behind the lorry with the reversing buzzer on and walk around to ask me to turn it off as it’s hurting her child. Clearly the response of ‘well if your the one that left him there, I figured you wanted him crushed behind a reversing lorry’ didn’t get the response she wanted. Although thankfully I guess I was driving an unmarked white truck.
People want to get everywhere faster and quicker and without care.
Perhaps they should expand the subway and trains to insist people use those ONLY and leave the roads for the trucks but then they’d find some other way to [zb] us off, like a guy in front with a flag and a whistle to warn…
I am glad of lots of mirrors on modern trucks but we still all make mistakes don’t we. Unfortunately those who don’t care about such things walking by make more mistakes by just not caring…
Right, rant over. Sarnies to be made then off to work…
Even if I tap him at 4mph, there’s gonna be hell to pay, as no doubt all these never-worked-in-their-lives fools have nonetheless got degrees in law! 
