Aditya, incidently I have very similar exprience to share. I was coming to Pune from Mahabaleshwar and had just crossed the Khambataki ghat toll.
As you know, the road from toll booth till Shirwal is very good and almost everyone does 100+ all the time. I was at around 100-110 on the flyover near Pargaon Khandala, when I saw an old man, carrying something over head, started crossing the road even without looking for oncoming traffic. I noticed and immediately honked, but he didn't even bother to look. He kept on walking in straight line. I braked hard and came to complete half around 10 feet from him. People were shouting at him, but even when I stopped (with one hand over horn), he took his time to cross to the road. Not once he looked at the road. May be he was deaf?
I shudder to think, what if I didn't brake in time, or if there was any other car doing 130-140 there (the road is really good.)
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