Sadly not in the 'taken out for a drink' sense.
Coming across Tollcross, heading onto the short West Tollcross street. There are always lemmings there, so you pay close attention, which my colleague was doing. Two women about to cross, stopped at the kerb, he'd already slowed down a bit just in case. One of the ladies then launched herself straight out into the road with nary a glance to her right and bang into his path.
Her excuse was that she was on her meds and they affected her concentration, she appeared unhurt though. He's got a nasty cut to his elbow for his troubles (but thankfully not much else). He hasn't checked the bike over properly yet.
It's definitely a nasty bit that, and chatting with someone else at work we agreed that Edinburgh can be awful in places for pedestrians with some confusing, or blind, crossings, while at the same time looking before crossing is pretty fundamental, and she's quite lucky our colleague had slowed already, and that he wasn't in a car.
On that bit this morning I had no trouble at the entrance to the street, but turning right at the end there was a pedestrian walking on the road on the outside of the railing. Now that in itself isn't much of an issue, plenty space. Except she was walking a yard out into the road and staring into her phone.
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