Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

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.

"Huge leaps"...

Well, that is your opinion. I don't think it's at all a huge leap to believe that the police get something wrong.

Humans don't move all that fast, you're assuming that a pedestrian was not in any way looking like they would cross a road, then suddenly moved in front of a moving car who reasonably believed that pedestrian to be not intending to cross, yet somehow, also did it right at a PXO, and wasn't suicidal.  The pedestrian couldn't have been on the sidewalk (they'd be 8 feet away from even the curb, moving that distance would give the driver time to react), so maybe on the road, walking parallel to the curb...I dunno...this is very hard to imagine a situation where this is possible.

That to me seems like a much bigger leap, with much bigger assumptions, than that the police just took the drivers word as "they suddenly jumped in front of me" and didn't really consider how that could happen given the road.