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[Diamond Black Geezer]

Driving to work, turn off the main drag into a side street, forced to actually stop dead, with back end still poking out, made following two vehicles stop dead too because three little girls - and I'm talking no older than 10 - were sauntering across the side street, and continued to walk at their steady pace, all eyeballed me, one even went "what?!" and cheeked me, effectively using that thing in English law which disallows me from actually running people over against me.

Little bloody girls. Jesus. 


We made a decision, continuing on our journey - we're getting a dashcam. Had enough of this kind of thing. 

[2boxerdogs]

The way of the world I'm afraid , makes the blood boil the behaviour of some youngsters.

[Entwood]

Don't blame the kids ... blame the parents... it is THEY who have either not taught them manners/respect/how to behave or have taught them that whatever they do is their "right" and sod everyone else.

No child is born "bad" ... they learn, either by example or by simply getting away with more and more .....

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I had one of these about three hours ago. I was turning left into a road and he (around 14 years old) proceeded to play with his phone while stepping off the pavement and onto the road I was turning into. He didn't even bother with a cursory glance away from  his phone to check the road before walking across it.
I had no intention of stopping for him, so he got the fright of his life when he realised there was a car about a foot away from him.
As I passed him I heard many words beginning with F, W, C etc. He seemed very certain that he had done nothing wrong. 

[Andy H]

I had one of these about three hours ago. I was turning left into a road and he (around 14 years old) proceeded to play with his phone while stepping off the pavement and onto the road I was turning into. He didn't even bother with a cursory glance away from  his phone to check the road before walking across it.
I had no intention of stopping for him, so he got the fright of his life when he realised there was a car about a foot away from him.
As I passed him I heard many words beginning with F, W, C etc. He seemed very certain that he had done nothing wrong. 

From your description he had right of way.

[STEMO]

I had one of these about three hours ago. I was turning left into a road and he (around 14 years old) proceeded to play with his phone while stepping off the pavement and onto the road I was turning into. He didn't even bother with a cursory glance away from  his phone to check the road before walking across it.
I had no intention of stopping for him, so he got the fright of his life when he realised there was a car about a foot away from him.
As I passed him I heard many words beginning with F, W, C etc. He seemed very certain that he had done nothing wrong. 

From your description he had right of way.

Yep. Give way to pedestrians crossing the road in front of you, but was he on the pavement?

[Andy B]

....
I had no intention of stopping for him, so he got the fright of his life when  ....

best done with an auto where you can rev the car a bit to give the impression of heavy acceleration without actually doing so .... I've 'encouraged' a few smart arses to cross a bit quicker than they'd originally planned 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I had one of these about three hours ago. I was turning left into a road and he (around 14 years old) proceeded to play with his phone while stepping off the pavement and onto the road I was turning into. He didn't even bother with a cursory glance away from  his phone to check the road before walking across it.
I had no intention of stopping for him, so he got the fright of his life when he realised there was a car about a foot away from him.
As I passed him I heard many words beginning with F, W, C etc. He seemed very certain that he had done nothing wrong. 

From your description he had right of way.

Yep. Give way to pedestrians crossing the road in front of you, but was he on the pavement?

No. It was a wide T junction with me clearly  indicating and in the process of turning left, when he just walked off the pavement, and almost into the o/s side of my car. Had he not been totally distracted by his phone, he presumably wouldn't have stepped off the pavement. Or maybe he just assumes that traffic will stop for him as he is obviously special.

[STEMO]

I had one of these about three hours ago. I was turning left into a road and he (around 14 years old) proceeded to play with his phone while stepping off the pavement and onto the road I was turning into. He didn't even bother with a cursory glance away from  his phone to check the road before walking across it.
I had no intention of stopping for him, so he got the fright of his life when he realised there was a car about a foot away from him.
As I passed him I heard many words beginning with F, W, C etc. He seemed very certain that he had done nothing wrong. 

From your description he had right of way.

Yep. Give way to pedestrians crossing the road in front of you, but was he on the pavement?

No. It was a wide T junction with me clearly  indicating and in the process of turning left, when he just walked off the pavement, and almost into the o/s side of my car. Had he not been totally distracted by his phone, he presumably wouldn't have stepped off the pavement. Or maybe he just assumes that traffic will stop for him as he is obviously special needs

Fixed.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I almost wrote that, but thought someone might find it offensive.

[05omegav6]

Need thicker skin than that around here lol...

But, he did have right of way

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

He walked into the road (almost) into a car which was occupying the bit of road he wanted to walk on, how did he have right of way ?
Maybe Im not explaining what happened well enough. 

[STEMO]

He walked into the road (almost) into a car which was occupying the bit of road he wanted to walk on, how did he have right of way ?
Maybe Im not explaining what happened well enough. 

Does it matter? It's not exactly an earth-shattering tale, is it? 

[Andy H]

He walked into the road (almost) into a car which was occupying the bit of road he wanted to walk on, how did he have right of way ?
Maybe Im not explaining what happened well enough. 

No harm done today but if he had managed to put himself under your wheels then it would have been very difficult to "explain what happened"......

[YZ250]

He walked into the road (almost) into a car which was occupying the bit of road he wanted to walk on, how did he have right of way ?
Maybe Im not explaining what happened well enough. 

Bit below may help. 

The Official Highway Code

Pedestrians
At a junction. When crossing the road, look out for traffic turning into the road, especially from behind you. If you have started crossing and traffic wants to turn into the road, you have priority and they should give way

I try not to stop in these circumstances to avoid being smacked up the arse. 

Edit: If you were already there and he walked out then I don't see what you could have done different.