Soooooooooooooooooo fucking close!!! Now will illustration!!

[Groove]

Filter faster, you would have gone past that incident spot a long time before she stepped out.

Problem solved
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[sickpup]

Stop looking in mirrors. If they look in their mirror they will see you, if they don't you have no warning.

Watch the front wheels but also look over cars. You should be looking at least 30 metres ahead as well as looking about and watching the front tyres.

People tend to turn the steering wheel, as their fingers pass the indicator stalk switch them on then look in their mirrors. The especially applies when not moving.

[sickpup]

[colin1]

[Psychonaut]

Same sort of thing happened to me filtering past a van on the 125 an worman just stepped out looking the other way I slammed on the breakes and pulled the clutch in (but some how didn't roll off the throttle).
Stopped in time but my engine was screaming, now she's bloody looking.
Now if I filter and see a van I slow down more, well any vehicle that is taller than an average person, I assume theres someone there until I know different.
The joys of rush hour traffic
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[doggone]

25 was probably a bit fast past very slow moving cars - unless you have really good visibilty and there are no obvious junctions including private drives.
Even then someone might suddenly do a U turn.
If you're covering the brakes and only doing 15-20 you could stop in a car length and avoid most disasters.

[jonboy22]

Pedestrians are weirdos, especially in London, they don't really value their lives properly.

Coming along the Cromwell road (not even filtering! normal flowing traffic) and I can see this bald guy on the left, step off the curb . He's got about 100 yards before my wave of traffic (me a taxi and the rest of us) get to him.

I'm thinking this crazy guy might actually have a go!! And sure enough he runs out, he's got three lanes to cross, I brake early and he's past my lane, the cab carrys on and beeps at him. He then goes into this rather strange silly run kind of picking up his heels as if be nipped on the heels by a dog and putting his hand out. When he makes it to the other side, he grins and laughs as if to say wow I made it.....

and they call us nutters......
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[Ninja]

you should have expected it nad even should have seen her ... people are normally taller than cars and you should have picked up her movement through the windscreen etc with your peripheral vision at the least ... if not, then you were going a touch fast to not see a ped waiting to dash through traffic ...

However, there's not a lot you can do ... I had an identical situation in my car:-

[Finglonga]

For once! someone filtering at a respectable speed not at full pelt.

Not alot you could have done apart from(if there is room) moving over the right a bit more so you can see around the cars better. Also as said above keep an eye on the wheels of the car for them begining to turn. I do scan their mirros as I filter as if they make eye contact with you they have seen you and shouldnt punt you off.
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[mrtEE]

Good work avoiding an accident, now get yourself and your lunchbox down to the clap clinic to avoid another nasty surprise.

[LUXY DJ]

get this ALL the time in london!(cause theres always traffic )

when im approching a "blocked" view then i slow down alot & rev a few times as im approching

iv had some van drivers put there hand out the window saying stop & 1st time i was like "WTF" then relised someone was crossing in front of his van & about to come into MY sight

does piss me right off though when ppl just "APPEAR" from inbetween cars & only looking @ other sides traffic & me being a "biker" when ever I cross the roads now, before im looking @ the other sides traffic,etc im still watching the 1st road im crossing for bikes


iv found race pipe + revs = THEM NOTICING! & TAKING NOTE FOR NEXT TIME
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