"Nearly knocked off my feet"

Surely a case for pedestrian walking helmets?
QUOTE:
"Steph McGovern, 37, who is expecting her first child next month, admitted she was almost knocked down by a Deliveroo cyclist. The BBC Breakfast correspondent spilled the details during a recent episode of the consumer complaint’s programme, Watchdog. Steph told viewers:

“Deliveroo and Uber Eats, I’m sure you’ve all seen the food delivery cyclists whizzing about. Some of them a bit too dangerously. “I was actually nearly knocked off my feet coming out of a shop last week.�

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-...eo-latest-news

On 18/10/2019 11:21, Simon Mason wrote:

Surely a case for pedestrian walking helmets?

QUOTE:
"Steph McGovern, 37, who is expecting her first child next month, admitted she was almost knocked down by a Deliveroo cyclist. The BBC Breakfast correspondent spilled the details during a recent episode of the consumer complaint’s programme, Watchdog. Steph told viewers:

“Deliveroo and Uber Eats, I’m sure you’ve all seen the food delivery cyclists whizzing about. Some of them a bit too dangerously. “I was actually nearly knocked off my feet coming out of a shop last week.�

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-...eo-latest-news

Presumably she was still on the footway whilst "coming out of a shop".

On 19/10/2019 02:26, JNugent wrote:
On 18/10/2019 11:21, Simon Mason wrote:

Surely a case for pedestrian walking helmets?

QUOTE:
"Steph McGovern, 37, who is expecting her first child next month,
admitted she was almost knocked down by a Deliveroo cyclist. The BBC
Breakfast correspondent spilled the details during a recent episode of
the consumer complaint’s programme, Watchdog. Steph told viewers:

“Deliveroo and Uber Eats, I’m sure you’ve all seen the food delivery
cyclists whizzing about. Some of them a bit too dangerously. “I was
actually nearly knocked off my feet coming out of a shop last week.�

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-...eo-latest-news


Presumably she was still on the footway whilst "coming out of a shop".

Don't know. I could not find in the report where the bicyclist "nearly
knocked down" the pregnant lady.
Being on the footway is a reasonable supposition.
I quite often ride on the footpath for short distances if it avoids
dangerous situations like being scraped off by a lorry, but only at slow
speed and I get back on the road or bike track as soon as possible
afterwards.
Personally I think bikes should be allowed on footways, provided
Pedestrians always have right of way, and
The bike must not be ridden at over 8kph (a fast walking speed).
Am now awaiting a torrent of flying dirty and turd-stained sharpened
chisels. knives and battleaxes from a certain denizen.

On 19/10/2019 09:41, Peter Keller wrote:
On 19/10/2019 02:26, JNugent wrote:
On 18/10/2019 11:21, Simon Mason wrote:

Surely a case for pedestrian walking helmets?

QUOTE:
"Steph McGovern, 37, who is expecting her first child next month,
admitted she was almost knocked down by a Deliveroo cyclist. The BBC
Breakfast correspondent spilled the details during a recent episode of
the consumer complaint’s programme, Watchdog. Steph told viewers:

“Deliveroo and Uber Eats, I’m sure you’ve all seen the food delivery
cyclists whizzing about. Some of them a bit too dangerously. “I was
actually nearly knocked off my feet coming out of a shop last week.�

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-...eo-latest-news


Presumably she was still on the footway whilst "coming out of a shop".

Don't know. I could not find in the report where the bicyclist "nearly
knocked down" the pregnant lady.
Being on the footway is a reasonable supposition.

If it were otherwise, she would not have phrased it in that way. She
would have said something more like “I was actually nearly knocked off
my feet while I was crossing the road last week.�

I quite often ride on the footpath for short distances if it avoids
dangerous situations like being scraped off by a lorry, but only at slow
speed and I get back on the road or bike track as soon as possible
afterwards.
Personally I think bikes should be allowed on footways, provided
Pedestrians always have right of way, and
The bike must not be ridden at over 8kph (a fast walking speed).

I cannot agree. Because of the natural and reasonable expectations of
pedestrians (all of us), bicycles are not suitably safe for use on
footways or footpaths and should be banned from travel along all of them
(even the currently so-called "shared" ones).

Bicycles are road-going vehicles and should be confined to the
carriageway, as other road-going vehicles are. Obviously, and as with
other vehicles, access across footways at either end of the journey is a
necessary exception, but that is across, and not along, the footway.

If it doesn't feel safe to use the carriageway, it simply isn't right to
transfer the danger and apprehension to others. One should dismount and
walk the bicycle along the footway if it's that important. And that is a
better concession than nervous drivers or motorcyclists get.

Am now awaiting a torrent of flying dirty and turd-stained sharpened
chisels. knives and battleaxes from a certain denizen.

On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 9:41:20 AM UTC+1, Peter Keller wrote:
Don't know. I could not find in the report where the bicyclist "nearly
knocked down" the pregnant lady.
Being on the footway is a reasonable supposition.

I disagree, or she would have said so. The Deliveroo courier was more likely to have been "tearing along" the road at 20mph and she stepped onto the road in front of him. She would then have been one of the millions of people who are "nearly" run over every day. Nothing happened.