Didn't really expect much from DrivingUk but honestly the amount of downvotes shocked me. God forbid people go out at night dressed normally without full on high vis.
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As if it actually matters what colour a pedestrian is wearing. My winter coat is white and I carry two lights - one on my coat and one either on my head or in my hand if it's too irritating to wear. The other evening I was walking home from the grocery store and this guy kept pulling out of parking lot that crossed my sidewalk, even though I was waving my light right at him but he didn't even look in my direction until he was already pulling into traffic. He was never looking for pedestrians, only vehicles.
People turning are the worst when on foot or a bike. I will pass crosswalks and cross the street away from them in a great many places because crosswalks are way more dangerous as people turning right will look left, then go with an opening. I only cross in such circumstances after making eye contact and getting a nod from the driver.
Drivers are rather oblivious too, many think they've the right of way to turn right or left with the green straight, even as the crosswalk has the walk going straight then too. The walk symbol from pressing the buttons doesn't change it either, it just gives a visual cues. Around expressway links on buys roads is the worst in cities.
Oh yeah, no I just backed up and waited for him to go, sometimes I'll dramatically bow at people who don't stop for me but this guy was particularly infuriating because I was already walking on the sidewalk and he just went anyways. Too many drivers act like the fact that they can kill me gives them the right of way and a lot of the comments here are behaving the same way, it's actually concerning. Like, sure wearing brighter colours can help, but it literally does not matter what you wear because the driver is going to make excuses anyways - "they dressed too dark", "they came out of nowhere", "I didn't see them" - all of them amount to "I wasn't paying enough attention to safely manage my murder machine but I can't accept accountability because me!" And I've proven that fact by wearing bright colours, carrying lights, and being patient and giving up my right of way and they still almost hit me every day.