Comment by WalterBright

I did not panic. If I had hit his baby, I would have been legally in the wrong. A fat lot of good that would have done the baby or the father.

It's monumentally stupid to be in the middle of a narrow road around a blind corner. People speed around blind corners all the time.

Consider a crosswalk. The law says traffic must stop for anyone setting foot in the crosswalk. But it's crazy to step into a crosswalk assuming drivers will stop for you. I always wait until they actually stop before I step into it.

I remember a public service commercial from the 60s advocating the idea that one shouldn't be right, dead right, and to use common sense.

I talked to a cyclist once who told me about his legal rights to ride a bike in traffic. I asked him but what if a car hits you? He smugly replied that then he'd win a massive lawsuit. I then asked him what good would that do him if he was paralyzed? He then looked startled.