Please carry a torch - especially with children

Sun 21 Dec, 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.