A plea for pedestrians, car haters or not. Not a lot of people know that a pedestrian has the right of way at a junction where a car needs to turn left into the road a pedestrian is crossing. I know that and as a result slow down when turning left to look for, and if needs be, give way to pedestrians. Now, in the imortal words of Sir Michael "not a lot of people know that".

As a pedestrian it is also your duty to make sure that you are aware of your surroundings.

Lying under a van that has run you over "because it was your right of way" is not going to help you.

As I have said on this forum before, cars and other vehicles are a fact of life. Let us all step back, look at how we all interact and just be careful out there.