Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[dtkvictim]

My money is on the pedestrian walking through a crossing, a driver, distracted, or even just not that focused, speeding around the circle, hitting them on the exit, telling the police "the pedestrian jumped out of nowhere", and the police charging the pedestrian regardless of what the pedestrian stated, if they even were asked.

Let's be clear - you're making a number of huge leaps and assumptions, and alleging misconduct by the police on that basis, which is your prerogative, but is by no means reasonable.

Pedestrians, just like drivers, are completely capable of moving unexpectedly and into the path of others without looking and without being suicidal. They are human after all.

Agreed: people are people. The idiots in cars we spend all day complaining about on here are made out of the same stuff as idiots on bike and on foot. The only difference is the level of responsibility towards safety that each should be tasked with (enshrined in law, enforcement, and street design). It would be absurd to assume by default that two drivers in a car crash must both be guilty due to being in a car.

Though if the statistic for who is at fault in pedestrian/vehicle collisions tells a damning story then maybe some assumptions would be understandable.