The problem is you try to miss them. You panic the pedestrians.
You need to slow or stop.

If the ped. did have a helmet, it certainly wasn’t on his noggin….ba-boom!

Speed limits on normal roads don’t apply to bicycles.

That’s not to say that you can ride as fast as you like though because there are laws against ‘cycling furiously’ and laws again dangerous or careless cycling.

It might be the case that bye-laws impose a limit (typically applicable on things like towpaths and other cycle paths rather than the road though)

Put simply you might get charged for going too fast on a bicycle (“cycling furiously”) whether you are over the stated limit for motor vehicles or not.

Spot on, Chris.

Nah—da pedestrian THEY woz gooin’ two farst, innit! “They” is a jaywalker….simpuls.

WHAT????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you not heard of panniers?

You all seem to have missed the vital point: why wasn’t the pedestrian wearing a helmet?

Pedestrian at fault, any road going vehicle has right of way on the highway unless stated by road signs etc. A cycle is a road going vehicle and as such must abide by those rules. Shame it happened though.

Really, listen to yourself. You’re little different from a driver giving out about cyclists being on the road – “We build them cycle paths and they don’t use them”.

I don’t see a crossing anywhere near there, from the view we have. Why should a pedestrian have to go maybe hundreds of metres out of their way, to use a crossing that prioritises vehicles over them? Why should a cyclist have to go out of their way to use shitty cycling infrastructure that makes them cede priority at every side street?

Pedestrians deserve respect and care from other road users, just as cyclists do. Anything else is just wrong-headed, and incredible to read from commentators on a cyclist website!

In a way this is Darwin in action. The pedestrian was given a safe way of crossing the road, but was too thick to use it, got injured.

Perhaps we should build special crossings for pedestrians so they can cross the road safely. Maybe ones similar to the crossing that can be seen at the beginning of the clip which the pedestrian chose not to use. Pedestrian is at fault for moving in to the cyclists path.

Pedestrian => Highway Code:

D If traffic is coming, let it pass. Look all around
again and listen. Do not cross until there is a safe gap in the traffic
and you are certain that there is plenty of time. Remember, even if
traffic is a long way off, it may be approaching very quickly.

E When it is safe, go straight across the road – do not run.
Keep looking and listening for traffic while you cross, in case there
is any traffic you did not see, or in case other traffic appears
suddenly. Look out for cyclists and motorcyclists travelling between
lanes of traffic. Do not walk diagonally across the road.

What ‘debate’ does it need.. fool pedestrian jumping out in a busy traffic road..you’ll find it’s called jaywalking in the US..

The cyclist wasn’t exceeding the speed limit, the pedestrian only has right of way at a signed junction or when crossing the road behind a T-junction. It is the pedestrians fault, though the cyclist could have avoided it 100% by the earlier application of the ‘there’s an idiot in front of me’ rule.

The cyclist shows zero anticipation: replace the pedestrian by a motorbike waiting to overtake the bus. The cyclist can see the bus is stopped in the bike lane, and can see the vehicle with the dashcam is stationary. So he thinks he can speed round the car/van and switch into the middle of the road when he has absolutely no visibility? In this alternative scenario he would sail (sorry, cycle) straight into the motorcycle. Who would you blame then?

The cyclist is pulling out of a cycle lane to overtake the bus. Hes within his right to do so. The pedestrian should have checked the cycle lanes as well instead of just the main roadway before crossing.

Shame on us work cyclists that carry clean clothes and rain gear in our rucksacks.

Deffo the pedestrians fault. Its happened to me, the guy walks out into the road the cyclist attempts to estimate the time/space required to miss him and then the ped pauses and the cyclist cannot react/change his line quick enough and so a coming together happens. No different than a vehicle coming out of a junction and causing an accident

But a pedestrian’s right to cross a street doesn’t erase the reality that there are sections of roadway where cars (and bikes) are allowed to move freely and can’t be expected to stop on a dime the moment someone decides they feel like stepping off the curb. And since we all understand that pedestrians are vulnerable and need to cross at some point, the special care you mention is given in the form of crosswalks (at intersections and other points). I totally agree that the pedestrian probably didn’t see the cyclist until it was too late, but that doesn’t change the fact that he took an albeit common risk and this time, unfortunately, ran into trouble.

The cyclist hit the pedestrian by skidding you can see he veers off to the left from the path he was taking but the pedestrian looked very erratic slow, slow, quick, slow, quick, slow, stop – why?, Bang! So in my mind both are at fault – stupid place to cross a road though no doubt there was probably a better place to cross but was “inconvenient” .

The pedestrian has a right to use the road, and to cross it – just like any other road user. It’s funny how often cyclists forget that. Given the cyclist is undertaking a vehicle, the pedestrian may not even have been able to see the cyclist when they started crossing.

I think pedestrians, as the most vulnerable road users out there, and least able to avoid others, deserve special care from other road users…

Why do so many modern cyclists carry rucksacks on their backs – this is crazy stuff.
40 years ago, every club cyclist knew that carry a rucksack was wrong, your centre of weight is too high – your control and balance are affected.
In this case, adding a greasy road, the cyclist has limited control of his machine.

Neither person was doing anything crazy, it was an unfortunate series of events. What upsets me is the lack of consideration for the pedestrian afterwards (this might not be the case as we don’t see the conclusion).

Pedestrians often walk in front of bikes as if the bike ought to stop.

It’s not really a debate is it, or a news item, or really of much interest at all. It’s just yet another dash / go-pr / helmet / body/ whatever camera on you tube. It’s right up there with the Daily Mail pulling stories out of Twitter. What it is, is Yellow Journalism.

Remember when Cycling Weekly was actually about actual cycling?

about 90% pedestrians fault, and 10% fault of the car driver, from what I can see. Pedestrian crossing against flow of traffic, and if you look closely at the video there are two distinct flashes of light on the back of the bus just as the car starts to slow and before the pedestrian crosses the centre line. This indicates that the car may have flashed the pedestrian to indicate they are letting them cross. This is a dangerous thing for a car driver to do – especially in the close proximity to a cycle lane. I don’t see any fault of the cyclist, who until shortly before the collision was exactly where you’d expect him to be. He clearly didn’t see the pedestrian until he was ahead of the car, and you would expect one to appear in that situation, and he clearly attempted to stop given his wobble as he crossed the cycle lane white line. The pedestrian acting like a rabbit in the headlights and then trying to move out the way only made matters worse.

Cyclists fault without a doubt. He (I presume) started to veer to the right but then continued straight ahead, which would have seen him hitting the bus rather than go around it. His speed was excessive and he should have seen the pedestrian with enough time to slow and/or do a life-saver look over his shoulder and get in an appropriate position to go around the bus.

This was a clear “head down and full steam ahead” moment which was reckless. A car driver, or motorcyclist, would have been taking far more notice of the road ahead.

Too much of a focus on listening to music rather than paying attention to his surroundings.

I’ve seen some debatable ones, but that is quite straight forward. The cyclist was in a cycle lane and well within the speed limit. That he overtook the car to the left is the design of the cycle lane. The pedestrian messed up. My guess is that he only checked the road and not the cycle lane before crossing. You can make criticisms of the cyclist about the speed and the possible weight of the rucksack, although we don’t know its weight, but none of that excuses the pedestrian for trying to cross at that time. The road design doesn’t help.

The cyclist was going too fast. The pedestrian hesitates not knowing whether the cyclist is going to go in front of or behind him but then carries on. The cyclist is unable to react in time so there is collision. The cyclist was going too fast.