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It was a pedestrian, _walking_ a bicycle.


Interesting segue: in The Netherlands, that would not legally be a pedestrian, although you would be classified as one for most purposes.

A pedestrian ("voetganger") is someone who travels by foot only. If you guide another vehicle by hand, or even a horse or cattle, you are legally considered a driver. Therefore, most laws concerning pedestrians have to make explicit allowances for walking a personal vehicle. For example, the primary Dutch Traffic Regulations [1]:

The rules in this resolution concerning pedestrians apply equally to persons guiding by hand a motorbike, moped or bicycle

[1] https://wetten.overheid.nl/jci1.3:c:BWBR0004825&hoofdstuk=I&...


I posted about Harry Dunn who died while "riding his motorcycle when a woman emerged from the airbase on the wrong side of the road and there was a head-on collision." I mistakenly recalled that case as involving a pedestrian.




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