In message , at 10:23:34 on Wed, 9 Oct
2013, Arthur Lemming remarked:
My question was triggered by reading of some pedestrians using a
light-controlled pedestrian crossing. A bus had already stopped at
red.
The road itself is only wide enough for one motor vehicle in each
direction.
The pedestrians, crossing the road, walked out of the cover of the bus
without checking further, and reportedly just missed getting knocked
down by a car that was overtaking the bus, but were I believe unharmed.

Given the possible existence of video recordings of the incident, I
think
the only question really is whether the police could or would take any
significant action if the incident was reported.

Given that no-one was injured, and it wasn't witnessed first hand by the
police, and presumably wasn't reported as soon as it had happened, then
I don't hold out much hope for them being very interested.

If they were interested, they could identify the specific bus, and the
recording still existed, I would expect that the bus company would
respond to a relevant Data Protection s29 notice (but if they wanted as
a matter of public policy to avoid becoming a surrogate traffic-offence
camera operator rather than a bus company they might well decide to
generically expire the cctv recordings sooner than the average s29 can
be actioned).

Obviously, there's also the possibility of a court order, but whether a
court would regard this scenario as a good use of their time is another
matter.
--
Roland Perry