Please carry a torch - especially with children

Sun 21 Dec 2025, 16:16

Also, the number of drivers who think they can floor it when either leaving the station towards the train bridge and beyond or entering Charlbury via the train bridge is obscene. For some reason, this section is 30mph not 20mph like the rest of Charlbury, even though there is a nursery sited after the bridge. The path is so narrow in some parts from overgrown hedges, that you can be millimeters away from wing mirrors when pushing a pushchair along there. This even worse in winter when there usually a lot standing water and mud in sections.

Sun 21 Dec 2025, 13:58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TK1qJGvqQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7EBhHmELNc

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Sun 21 Dec 2025, 13:29

Yes we all should wear something brighter at night, but perhaps certain drivers should slow down instead of speeding around Charlbury.

We need more street lights at busy junctions, and down near the station to help pedestrians, instead of less.

Sun 21 Dec 2025, 10:32

Improving visibility in the dark/in Winter - fluorescent gear, no flashing lights.

I had a quick look on-line:

• Fluorescent vest £4

• Fluorescent arm bands/ankle bands (pack of 4) £3.89

• Reflective sash to wear diagonally £7.99

Sun 21 Dec 2025, 08:25

I don't use a torch because following a fall on leaves at the Enstone rd crossroads a few years ago I now get visual vertigo fron bright lights at night. Car lights are dreadful, but TBH those LED head torches are worse as they're at the wrong height and walking people move slower than cars. So if you're going to carry a torch please don't swing it up and down as you're walking, as the result could be an ambulance being called. I do have tablets, but I can't take them until the vertigo starts, by which time I'm likely to have fallen over anyway if I have a bad attack.

Sun 21 Dec 2025, 00:54

Following the discussion about the difficult crossroads:  a few days ago I drove to the station to collect a friend, about 1700, and was seriously alarmed - there was an adult walking with a child, the adult carried a torch but the child did not and the child was walking on the outside.   They were going in the other direction, else I would have stopped and said something.  

I go hot and cold at the memory.   Any driver going at more than a cautious pace on the same side as the pair (and we have them) could easily have collided, especially if driving an EV - which make little or no noise.   

Years ago I encountered three teenagers on bicycles with no lights late at night.  After the altercation my passenger, trying to soothe me with humour, made an ill-judged remark about jeunesse puree.