A driver who accelerates past a line of stationary vehicles in an adjacent lane is negligent if they fail to slow down to account for the foreseeable risk that a pedestrian may emerge from between those vehicles. A pedestrian who crosses a road other than at an available pedestrian crossing, continues across when lights change, and fails to look bears a high degree of contributory negligence — here apportioned at two-thirds.
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