Originally Posted by
Rollfast
Your job is to yield to all parties and YELL if necessary to alert them and avoid the collision. Having you, the possible lone party fully aware of the potential for mayhem, able to try to counteract the danger is the thing to do.
A preferable situation would be to exercise even more diligence to keep these instances from occurring at all. Be more aware of your surroundings and act sooner if you are able.
Ah, but just how far is the OP suppose to go in preventing a crash? Should the OP place themselves in danger in order to prevent the faster cyclist from impacting with the pedestrians? I'm sure that like many of us here that you have encountered pedestrians who can best be described as "iPod zombies." And that nothing short of a gun/cannon blast is going to penetrate their music.