On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:05:26 +0100 David Hansen wrote:
} On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:32:16 +0100 someone who may be "Steve Moore"
} wrote this:-
}
} You should watch out for cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians
} as they are not always easy to see
} watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are
} turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way
}
} It's amazing the number of people who pretend they have not read
} this rule when it suits them.

As far as I can see the "started to cross" is imaterial.

A pedestrian going down the road isn't changing direction, a vehicle
turning into another road is changing direection and so should give way
to the pedestrian at any point.

Of course that's theory, not practical advice for many situations.

It was very disheartening seeing how difficult some people found it to
grasp the concept of direction change. That going around a bend isn't a
change of "direction" as you're still going ahead in terms of the road.

It's significant for priorities and giving way because junctions can be
marked in ways that make "ahead" rather different than would appear
naturally.

Matthew
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