Dark Buggies.

[bluemoon]

We were at the lottie until 8.30 tonight. On the way back is an area which passes between the local woods and some fields, no streetlights. We narrowly missed a young mum who was dressed in black and pushing a dark coloured buggy, she was just invisible until the last minute. MY OH, who was driving, is still shaken up, fortunately he wasn't going more than 15mph as we'd just pulled out of a junction. So, although I know the young mums here are sensible, and I know that dark buggies are far more practical, please remember to wear something light coloured when you're out at night or put some of those reflective strips on your pushchairs. I know it's not something you'd always think of, I know I wouldn't. Actually you'd think the manufacturers would do something like this, wouldn't you?
Sorry to be such an old woman.......I'm getting to be more like my mum every day.

[Jardiniere]

i thought you were going to describe some horried insect that you'd found - a dark bug(gy)!!!!

[rogesse]

Couldn't agree more bluemoon, I got thoroughly run over at 7yrs coming back from Brownies (brown uniform, black coat). Fortunately I bounced.

[Two_Sheds]

And why don't people walk on the right side of the road anymore, ie facing oncoming traffic?
I saw a car coming round a bend, nearly hit a family of 5 who were walking abreast (how stupid?) with their backs to the traffic. They couldn't see oncoming vehicles ... mind you, perhaps people like that would be doing the world's gene pool a favour by removing themselves from it

[Mikey]

I often find dark buggies stuck to the front of my car in the morning, I guess this sort of thing happens more often than we think.

[Rhona]

oohhh... scary! Totally understand why you were shaken up. When I first started to take our baby out in her pram, I felt really nervous - I had a very, very near miss on a crossing near where we live before she was born and I always feel skittish around there. As the evenings become darker, I will take extra care. Not that I'll be out with the pram after dark very often!