soup wrote:

On 21/02/2018 20:48, Brian Reay wrote:


We were walking in Battle today, a little after lunch time.
The* we were on the pavement, the road was quite wide and busy. I'm not
sure what the limit was, probably 30mph. The road was certainly busy
enough and the traffic moving so freely that, had I wished to cross, I'd
have looked for a crossing or, as min, somewhere with an central
'island' etc.

Unfortunately, not everyone shows such caution. A woman of, perhaps
30-40 decided to try and run across the road. She 'made it' but only
because a car had better brakes/the driver had better reactions than her
running ability.* She blamed the driver, at least judging by her shouts.

Who would you blame?


The driver.

It wouldn't matter if the limit was 60 MPH (the speed limit is a limit
it is NOT a recommended speed or anything like that). An appropriate
speed would be one where you can cope with the unforeseen.


No-where do you indicate she was 'running out' between parked cars
(if she had then it would take a fuller knowledge of the facts to
ascertain blame) so the driver will have seen her for quite some
distance.

Knowing it was likely a tourist area (1066 and all that) I would have
slowed right down (better to get honked at from behind than to kill
someone).

its impossible to say unless you actually witnessed what happened but take a drive up the high street in google maps
its not a great place to be going very fast most times of the day
goo.gl/pPzCn5