I don't drive so my interactions with vehicles is as a pedestrian. I don't plan weaving within the traffic when there is a wave of cars but their is always a trough sooner or later, should that coincide with traffic lights is not a concern I have.

Still I have to accept that I'm getting old and I may gauge the spaces and time in error, not only that, it may well be that I fall and am not sprightly enough to bounce off the tarmac and dodge the steel.

What brought me to this spiel?
I was in Bristol this last weekend and I wove between the traffic with a young child in my arms; it's been playing on my mind and I feel dirty. That I put my notions of safety into to action like that with no thought of how the mother, who was watching, felt. Such levels of danger and inconsideration embarrass me.

I am not going to do it again. I will be more considerate to the young and their mothers, though I doubt I will show such consideration for the drivers.

Data from STATS 19 show that pedestrian accident rates are higher over the pedestrian crossing points than these away from it, or within 50 meters of pedestrian crossing facilities. This is contrary to the expectations that accidents should be least over these crossing facilities.
https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/p01_alnaqbi.pdf

The above reference is not to show any notion of safety at crossings as as far as I can tell there was no count of how many people crossed roads at different places. Given that more people cross roads at crossing then there may well be more accidents there, also crossing are provide where ther is clearly heavy traffic and increased danger.

Maths is fine, statistics is based on fear and to understand the probabilities touted by statisticians learn use logic and study maths maybe. For whereas an individual may study maths and logic to understand there position in the cosmos, statisticians are only concerned like politicians in manipulation others to their whimsical weaknesses