Traffic cop type question!

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As I think there is one of those on the site, and google isn't much help and no one seems to know, are there actually any laws, regulations regarding cattle grids, pedestrians and traffic?

A runner took ten years off my life the other day, running down the hill to a cattle grid with a pedestrian gate on the side, I saw them and assumed (wrongly) they were doing what people usually do, and going through the gate, but then to my horror they decided to run across the cattle grid in a very wobbly fashion, just as I was crossing it with the car - why they didn't know there was a car behind them I have no idea, it's a big heavy old banger, not a fancy shmancy quiet electric one! If they had slipped just a bit more than they were already doing, they would have been under the wheels , and apart from the fact that you can't brake on a cattle grid, too slippery, it happened so suddenly I had no way of stopping anyway. Luckily they were not squashed, but I'm intrigued as to who would have been at fault if they had been! Honestly, the sheep up there have more sense!
 
Since 29 January 2022, the Highway Code has been updated with a hierarchy of vulnerability so that pedestrians, particularly children, the elderly and the disabled (whether that disability is apparent or not), are considered most vulnerable, followed by cyclists, horse riders and drivers of horse-drawn vehicles with those controlling motor-vehicles. However rule H1 says: “None of this detracts from the responsibility of ALL road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders, to have regard for their own and other road users’ safety.”
With regard to pedestrians, there are certainly circumstances where they might be deemed at fault. For example if they suddenly stepped into the road or if they were in an area where pedestrians were prohibited. I haven't found anything specifically to do with cattle grids. However, as a pedestrian gate has been provided, there would be questions asked as to why they didn't use the safe option. 👍
 
Gosh that’s awful I hope you’re ok - it shakes you up doesn’t it?
I don’t really know but I reckon the pedestrian might have the right of way - the law has changed recently with pedestrian rights
Poor attitude from the runner for not looking and not being able to hear you
If you have a right of way anyhow you always look and check the way is clear
Do you use a dash cam ? Worth it for instances like this
Take care
 
Roselina - erm I do own a dash cam, but I can't work out how to connect it up in the car! Though as I struggle to work anything tech related, it is hardly surprising, but I thought exactly the same thing, it would have been so useful.

BossHog ( I am too fixated on fondly remembering The Dodge Charger - love American muscle cars) and I have no idea what the difference is between the two jobs - my only association with the police is with the dog handlers (miss the good old days of being able to compete against them with my own dogs) so I'm sorry if I called you the wrong thing, it was you I was thinking of when I wrote the query.

Interesting as it seems to date no one has actually yet squashed anyone on a cattle grid - but seems this particular runner is out to change that. I have no idea why they didn't go through the gate, but I've now been told that runners run with headphones on, well I'm sorry but when you are running on roads, that would seem to be verging on suicidal. I walk and ride on roads and I am listening non stop for possible traffic, the idea of not knowing a car is approaching would terrify me. Thanks for the answers.
 
Bluebell said:
BossHogg ( I am too fixated on fondly remembering The Dodge Charger - love American muscle cars) and I have no idea what the difference is between the two jobs - my only association with the police is with the dog handlers (miss the good old days of being able to compete against them with my own dogs) so I'm sorry if I called you the wrong thing, it was you I was thinking of when I wrote the query.
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We do a very similar job to the police on the motorway, we don't have powers of arrest/enforcement. We drive similar looking cars, ours are black/yellow not blue/yellow and we have amber lights not blue lights.
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Are they Volvos? My favourite car, or at least the Proper ones like the 960 and 740s! But I guess the modern ones are faster!
 
They are, they're Volvo XC90 hybrids, they run on petrol and electric. 👍
 
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