> I realised that when on a crosswalk drivers will come sailing at you and will cross behind you as you cross over. That is illegal here.

It's illegal in most if not all of USA too, but no one cares in practice. Legally, even when a car driver and a pedestrian both have access to a lane separately, if both are present, then a car driver must give a full lane-width of space to a pedestrian crossing or at the corner.

Also, even when a pedestrian is committing the auto-industry-invented crime of "jaywalking", the pedestrian still has the right of way in traffic, unless it is physically impossible for the car driver to avoid the collision. Car drivers are not judge/jury/executioner.

(Nit: "Cars" don't "drive" (yet, in most places). "Car drivers" drive cars.)