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Duty of Care on a Bus Driver. A bus driver had not been negligent in hitting a pedestrian at a staggered pedestrian crossing where the traffic signals were in favour of the bus; the pedestrian had stepped out having failed to check for oncoming vehicles whilst labouring under the mistaken apprehension that the bus lane was governed by the same crossing as the ordinary traffic carriageway. The bus could have been travelling at no more than 10mph, which was well within the speed limit for the bus lane. The driver had not been negligent in failing to anticipate that the Claimant would step out from the traffic island in the centre of the crossing.