Is the driver of the red car allowed to continue driving in this situation?

Explanation

Prohibited — the red car must stop before the crossing. Two rules apply at once at an unregulated pedestrian crossing: you give way to a pedestrian on the crossing, and — decisive here — if a vehicle in an adjacent lane has stopped or slowed before the crossing, drivers in the other lanes may proceed only after making sure there is no pedestrian in front of it. The stopped blue car both blocks the red driver's view and signals to the pedestrian that the way is clear, so the pedestrian steps out from in front of it into the path of a car that never saw them. Treat a neighbour stopping before a crossing as an order to stop, not an opportunity to pass.

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