When considering any offence of possible due care relative to a road accident with a pedestrian v car, very basically the Police used to consider the driver as possible more at fault if a pedestrian has crossed from the offside rather than the nearside, based on the assumption that the driver ought to have had more time to react to a pedestrian crossing from the offside due to the distance / time they were in the carriageway prior to the collision.
Whether this is still the case, I cannot say, but logically...
There are obviously variables to this - ie parked vehicles, width of the road, light and weather conditions, height of the pedestrian, running / walking /actions of the pedestrian, point of impact on the vehicle, nature of the road, zones of invisibility, speeds involved etc etc. But as a rule of thumb, accidents involving pedestrian crossing from the nearside were much less likely to result in a prosecution against the driver than one crossing from the offside.
Don't ask me how I know.....
But would the Police be interested in such an in depth investigation as they often got criticised for doing the insurance companies donkeywork...
But I agree, a dash cam would be very beneficial in these circumstances determining exactly what occurred immediately prior to a collision....