Annabel Smyth wrote:

I dare say - when you step into the road and have to leap back on to the
pavement to avoid being run down, you consider it "nearly". At least, I
do..... Had I been another inch further into the road, we would have
collided.



Did you look before you stepped into the road or did you make the common
pedestrian mistake of believing because you cannot hear a motor there is
no traffic. Would you have stepped out in the same way if a car had
been approaching at the same speed?

Tony