Living in Melbourne down under – Victoria has a very specific road rule:
“When turning at any intersection (except a roundabout), you must give way to any pedestrians crossing the road you are entering”
there are of course a lot of unwritten exclusions:
Doesn’t apply to right turning traffic – if you’ve got a gap aim straight for the ped’s (think someone higher up called that “traffic flow”)
Doesn’t apply at any junction outside of the city centre during rush hour
Doesn’t apply in any suburb where most of the vehicles are V8 ute’s
An entrance to a petrol station, car park or drive thru bottle shop is not an intersection – there is a separate law which says give way to pedestrians when entering premises but this doesn’t apply to important people buying important things
interesting reference to roundabouts – at roundabouts ped’s have to give way – not a huge number of roundabouts near me but local council is planning more because “they are safer for peds” – this is true because drivers don’t have to break the law to maintain good flow – so its a the law doesn’t work lets just make it that ped’s have to wait
couple of roundabouts near local school and kids have to wait ages for gaps in traffic to cross and an awful one near youngest antigee’s old primary that widened to 2 lane entry/exit to encourage speeding to overtake despite being in a residential zone
PS think the UK highway code doesn’t include any reference to Right of Way – priority maybe