Fair enough, I can see why you use the pavement, but by your own admission you didn’t do a very good job of avoiding them and hit one at some speed?
They may well have been pissed but were in the confines of the environment they were supposed to be. Not like they stumbled into the road.
Slow down if you are using the pavement and be ready for any random movement
They kinda weren’t within their confines tho, one on the pavement, one walking down the layby so I couldn’t use that and a third behind.
There’s only pavement on the oncoming traffic side of the road too so with pavement & layby blocked my only option was oncoming road.
I still reckon he leaned towards me in an effort to knock me off cos I’m sure there was space. I’d only had 3.