Zu Fuß unterwegs

Erklärung: Outside built-up areas you walk on the left where possible. You can see the car that will have to avoid you, and the driver can see your face. Inside a town either side is allowed.

Erklärung: The law asks for exactly that: quickly, by the shortest route, at right angles to the road. Every extra second on the carriageway is a second of exposure.

Erklärung: Where the traffic situation requires it, you may only cross at a junction, at a light, or on a marked crossing. A busy road with a crossing in sight is that situation.

Erklärung: Vehicles must let you cross once you clearly want to — and a driver who has not seen you is not stopped by that duty. Make your intention visible, then check the car is really slowing.

Erklärung: Rail vehicles are the exception written into the crossing rule, and a tram needs a long distance to stop even when the driver wants to.

Erklärung: The turning driver has green too, and is required to let you go — which is exactly the moment people on foot are hit, because the driver is looking for a gap in the oncoming cars.

Erklärung: That strip is a cycle path, which is to say a road. Bicycles on it are fast and almost silent, and standing on it is where collisions with people on foot happen.

Erklärung: Inside built-up areas either side is allowed. The left-hand, face-the-traffic rule is for outside them, where speeds are higher and there is often no lighting.

Erklärung: Not at all. Dark clothing is recognised at roughly 25 metres, light or reflective clothing at well over a hundred — the difference between a driver having time to react and not having it.