It does not matter who has right of way or that drivers should not be speeding. If a pedestrian is hit by a car they will be hurt or killed and blaming someone will not help them / families left behind. Everyone, pedestrians and drivers should do everything they can to avoid a crash. Every pedestrian should think about how visible they are in the dark. Young school children are educated about this but adults seem to not take much care.

You can't always blame the car driver, the drunken revelers have a lot to answer for. To my knowledge, any accidents with car v's pedestrian has taken place on a normal carriageway. Pavements may help keep pedestrians out of the way of traffic but are not guaranteed to keep them separate!

Unless people are feeling suicidal they shouldn't be walking in the road at night regardless of the speed limit or what the highway code says, getting hit by a car doing 30 carries a high risk of death and the limit here is twice that, surviving being hit at 60 is about as likely as winning the lottery, never mind even at higher speeds. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to add a pavement? That way cyclists and pedestrians would be away from traffic.

John is correct. Walking on a road is legal, speeding isn't. If the road isn't safe for pedestrians then it should be shut to vehicular traffic, regardless of the inconvenience.

Rule 63. highway code, the pedestrian ALWAYS has right of way...

Solution:-
Build a footpath, like there should have been since the begining.

Maybe walking home after a night out staggering about drunk all over the place has something to do with it

why not ban pedestrians from walking on this road, would it not be safer to walk along footpaths through Clifton and Stainburn

i have cycled along this road on a few occasions the speeds that people travel along this road is scary i now go through clifton its harder but safer

Walker has a point about a footpath running parallel to the road, isn't this something that could be proposed at a national level? As for the unfortunate people walking along it at night, why haven't these people made provision for getting home without having to take such a dangerous route? Aren't there taxis, friends or family that could be called upon? I know I would pick my good lady up if she needed a lift home at ANY time day or night!