Comment Re:Categories (Score 2) 280
In the UK (as with most of Europe) pedestrians always have right of way on a public road over wheeled vehicles.
You may well be correct about Europe but that's not strictly true in the UK. While the Highway Code makes provision for pedestrians, it is not criminal law but can be the basis for civil law. Section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1988:
A failure on the part of a person to observe a provision of the Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind but any such failure may in any proceedings (whether civil or criminal, and including proceedings for an offence under the Traffic Acts, the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 or sections 18 to 23 of the Transport Act 1985) be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negative any liability which is in question in those proceedings.
IANAL but I think this confusion comes from rule 170 in the highway code:
Watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way.