There's a lot of local variation on whether pedestrians are allowed in roadways or not when there's a sidewalk. And even more variation in practice and enforcement.
Twenty years or so ago, Columbus was notorious. Among the more publicized cases, an elderly person who liked to sweep the street in front of their house got several jaywalking tickets.
Running in the road may be safer as a general rule (fewer irregularities and softer surface), but obviously they ought to be visible to traffic, and to get on the freakin' sidewalk if there's an oncoming car and no room for it to pass them safely in the road. I'm certainly not trying to say those people were being smart.
But I will say ... while runners and cyclists DEFINITELY have a responsibility to be visible and predictable, and you're definitely justified in your annoyance with them, what if it had been a deer, a dog, or a trash can in the road?
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