[Avylet A1] Almost hit a pedestrian yesterday

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[Avylet A1] Almost hit a pedestrian yesterday

[Avylet A1] Almost hit a pedestrian yesterday

I've never had a close call like this, so it's been kind of freaking me out. A part of me still believes I'm at fault for something.

For a bit of context on the video: the truck on the right, for whatever reason, comes to a complete stop before the intersection. I'm not sure if he was waiting for me to go before making a wide turn or something, but what I think happened after that was the three pedestrians thought the truck was stopping because the light was turning yellow/red.

The timestamp is behind by 12 hours; this happened at ~10am. The entire way home, I was freaked out and started convincing myself things like "the light must've turned red" or "the girl knew exactly how close she got to me and was just getting ready to jaywalk like normal" even though when it had just happened, I knew neither of those things were true. After watching the video, it really is crazy to me how the woman that walks in front does not look up at all. I still can't believe all three of them start going too.

I don't usually speed, but I didn't remember exactly how fast I was going. I used google maps to measure approximately how far I went in the three seconds from 00:00:18 to 00:00:21. After converting, I was going ~36 mph, in a listed 35. I also measured how far I was from the crosswalk when they started walking, and it was about 50 ft.

I really, really recommend a dashcam, even a relatively cheap one like I've got. I'd be beating myself up for this for a long time and questioning if I remembered things right without it.

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