“I had my head down looking at something on my mobile phone when I heard a shout,” he said. “It made me look up immediately, just in time to see a collision between a cyclist and a pedestrian. The defendant had been travelling at an average of 18mph before he noticed Briggs step into the road, jurors heard. Cross-examining, Mark Wyeth QC asked Small whether there could be a margin of error in his calculations of Alliston’s average speed before he saw Briggs. Wyeth suggested to Small that Alliston had the right of way as the lights on the stretch of Old Street were green.

Source: The Guardian August 15, 2017 13:29 UTC