I knocked someone down once on my bike.
I was living in bath England at the time and each summer we got an unbelievable number of coachloads of tourists from japan USA all over the world.
I was humming down the road in the centre of the city and spied a middle aged couple standing at a traffic island in the middle of the road. As I was in full view only 15 -20 yards away I didn't slow but just put my mitts on the brakes as a precaution.

I couldn't believe what happened next. ! they looked up the road the wrong way for traffic and then both stepped straight out in front of me .!.....:confused:

I jammed on the anchors ,skidded then went straight over the bars and landed on the couples heads. ( nice soft landing at least)

When we sorted our selves out miraculously no one was hurt!.

It turned out they were on holiday from the States and had looked the wrong way for oncoming traffic instinctively. bet they looked both ways the rest of the day