adamtki

True, you almost nailed him. Even if you didn't see the pedestrian walking (which you should have), you should always expect one if you're approaching a red light with a crosswalk and especially if a big vehicle can block part of the view. If there was a collision, you would've been partly at fault at the least for not stopping early and safely enough.

coldfeet

Not sure what your point is here. It looks to me that the pedestrian was moving to the right of the crosswalk, so that he was going to intersect the kerb at about the stop line. ( Against the rules, yes. Unexpected? Not by me ) When he saw you coming up fast, thought you were going to roll through the red, and momentarily moved further right to cross behind you, but continued on in a more direct line when you stopped. Do you disagree with this interpretation?

I-Like-To-Bike

Let's hope that will be an incentive for you. What a pointless video.

wheel

Good thing your post has some point I missed.

Yea don't worry I will leave all the good stuff for myself and leave you crappy videos.

daven1986

I get this a lot - peds trying to cut the "corner" of the crossing while I am coming up. It is because they don't look / don't expect - fortunately when coming up to crossings one is going slow enough to stop suddenly anyway.

cudak888 

In other words, you weren't expecting to stop at a crossing?

-Kurt

daven1986

It can happen no matter what you intend to do. If you intend to stop, if like me you stop right at the front, in front of all the cars as you have a green bicycle section there OR you just prefer being in front of cars so they see you then if the pedestrian cuts the crossing then there is a risk.

If you don't intend to stop then it can happen too, although you should be slowing down to make sure there are no pedestrians.

cudak888 

HUH?

-Kurt

gazer

This looks like no harm, no foul to me.

The pedestrian continues apparently unperturbed, and wheel might be a little more cautious approaching a red light next time.

Garthr

I'd say the same thing.



And I'll if you would have hit him you'd both be at fault because he cut the crosswalk and while your intention cannot be known from this video, the only way it would have been a collision is if you had run the light.

I wouldn't be so proud of showing this. . . . it either shows us you were intending to run the light or you weren't ready to stop at the light. You could clearly see the ped was crossing, so it's up to you to stop far enough behind the white lines.

daven1986

lol yes it doesn't quite make sense. But I think you understand what I was getting at: I like to stop in front of all the cars and I usually have a section of road dedicated to this, if the pedestrian cuts the crossing there could be a collision.

I-Like-To-Bike

If wheel gets so shook up by a single pedestrian not within the painted lines of a cross walk, crossing with the light no less, I'd recommend he avoid ever venturing in to an East Coast city.

gcottay

Bad riding but no harm.

ModeratedUser26092018

Looks like you were gonna run the red.

wheel

I'd rather be a man (post 14) than be a troll. Funny how all these people can't ask a simple question, nor accept ones answer.

You must be on some good drugs to be reading something I never posted.

I-Like-To-Bike

You ARE the OP, aren't you? If not, then who posted this thread about a pedestrian crossing a street with the light at an intersection and what do you think was the point?

BTW, IMO, most men and women, even children, would be embarrassed to admit that they were incapable of safely braking/stopping their bicycle because of a tailwind.

JRA

Just admit it, wheel. You screwed up. Learn from it.

I nearly hit a kid on a bicycle the other day. I was coming up to a stop sign and was planning to roll through the crosswalk (and stop beyond it). A kid rode off the sidewalk out from behind a building and we were suddenly on a collision path. I hit the brakes. He hit the brakes. We both stopped. Neither of us was hurt and we both went on our way, embarassed but unharmed.

He shouldn't have ridden off the sidewalk like that but he's a kid. I screwed up and my behavior is the only thing I can change. I should have known better. Maybe next time I'll come up to that intersection a little more cautiously. I re-learned something that I already knew. Hopefully, the kid learned something, too (but, then, I can't really control that).

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