speccy1 said:a stupid cow in a silver Peugeot 306 (my French car theory still stands here!!) decides to slam her brakes on at a crossing, even though the lights were still green to let two kids with there bikes cross the road - and I very nearly hit them because they just appeared from behind her car.
speccy1 said:No!! She jammed her brakes on, on a pedestrian crossing, even though the lights were green, putting those two kids right in my path. I would have had no problem if the lights had gone to red and she did it properly
Oddjob62 said:I'm confused.. If you were behind her you should have left enough space to stop in an emergency. If you were overtaking you would have been in the middle of the road and had plently of time to avoid someone who started crossing at the last second. If you were undertaking you shouldn't have been.
Pushing tin said:sounds like the op did not expect anyone to do what sounds like an emergency stop for a green light.
- Knew that bitA zebra crossing with a central island is two separate crossings (see Rule 20)
So she was correct to stop.197
Pelican crossings which go straight across the road are one crossing, even when there is a central island. You MUST wait for pedestrians who are crossing from the other side of the island.
speccy1 said:She overtook me, quite normally, and then 500 yards further up the road she decided to slam her brakes on because it was a "nice idea" to let those poor little kids cross over (from the rhs of the road to the left) even though the traffic lights were green.