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Take extra care and adapt speed to their presence.
Take extra care, adapt speed and stop if circumstances require it. Age, mobility and other characteristics can affect perceiving traffic or crossing, but behaviour is not identical across a group. People with disabilities or reduced mobility, and all other pedestrians, also require protection.
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Take extra care and adapt speed to their presence.
Assume all will cross at the same speed as an adult without difficulties.
Always maintain speed, even when expecting them to enter the carriageway.
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