I'm sure you're not shitting me Toodles :wink: , my point is, as far as i know from previous experience, that law only applies if the car is given ample(not sure how they judge this) time to stop.
If you were doing 60km/h down jackass street, and when you get to about 5 meters away i jump in front of you, there is no way on earth you could, or even be expected to, stop in time.
As i said, it's happened to a mate of mine, his parents went to court seeking damages from the victims compensation fund and were pretty much laughed at. Well, they weren't really laughed at, but they were told they had no chance as their son was to blame for his own death.
No driver was even charged with an offence....let alone convicted.