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  1. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    Moving house is funny? People do it all the time; generally it's a bit of a pain. :shrug:
  2. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    OK, jumped back without warning into the path he had taken to avoid her.......amounts to the same thing. Still need VAR for this one!
  3. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    Good luck when you want to move house then, carrying all your furniture from the main road along those leafy green pathways that used to be side roads! Best not need a fire-engine or an ambulance either..................
  4. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    If the pedestrian steps out without warning straight in front of them? Not guilty - see the example (involving a motorcycle) earlier on this thread.
  5. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    Yes, I agree that in this case VAR would be useful (unlike in most cases in football matches!). But, if as it seems, he took steps to avoid her, but she then jumped back into his (avoidance) path she bears much, if not all, of the blame. Still IMHO, like. If she jumped in front of a car or...
  6. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    As well as sounding his horn it was also stated that he braked and swerved to try and avoid her, but she jumped back into his path. Terrible judgement by the ....err...judge, IMHO.
  7. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    How many of those pedestrians killed or wounded were actually on the pavement, not on the road at all, I wonder.
  8. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    And neither it appears to me does the judge! What a travesty of justice - a cyclist witness says he might have been riding a bit aggressively, but three pedestrian witnesses state categorically that it was the woman's fault for not paying attention or looking where she was going - yet the judge...
  9. GT49er

    [Travel] Teacher who was staring at her phone and hit by a cyclist win compensation.

    Sounding the horn to warn other toad users (who might not have noticed your presence) is correct use of the horn. If that is not the correct time and place to use it, when is?

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