Country lanes - why does nobody know the rules anymore??

Tucker

I regulary drive to work along 5 or 6 miles of country lanes and also occasionally cycle them too.

I am amazed how I never see anyone walking on the correct side of the road.

I see people of all age groups, some the same ones each morning and everyone these days seems to think you should walk with the flow of the traffic on the left hand side.

Is it no longer common knowledge that on a road with no footpath that you should walk facing the on coming traffic??

I know on a bend, people might prefer to take the outside of it, but I am staggered how few people seem to know the right way to walk when they clearly live or use such roads on a regular basis.

AlexisV

At Christmas I nearly knocked someone down who was walking along the wrong side of the road IN THE FOG.

And there was a pavement. Madness!

POPPYOSCAR

Also why do some drivers think they can drive down the middle of the road. Have nearly ended up in the ditch several times!

peter_the_piper

Met a nutter driving a skateboard down a country lane, at night, raining, down the middle. Lucky I was just past the bendy bits.

Raksha

Never mind the car drivers - came round a sharp corner yesterday, to come face to face with a 'jogger' who seemed to think his hi viz jacket made him indestructible - he was running in the middle of my side of the road, presumably to avoid the puddles! Fortunately I don't drive at high speeds on country roads...

clangnuts

Last week in the fog, I passed a jogger on the road dressed like someone from Mission Impossible. All in black! They do say black is slimming, but !!!!!!

He was running into the flow of traffic though.

pink_princess

We were talking about this yesterday after overtaking a man jogging away from us.

It's like it is lost knowledge.

Strider590

pink_princess wrote: »

We were talking about this yesterday after overtaking a man jogging away from us.

It's like it is lost knowledge.

I prefer to think of it as Darwins theory, the human race is gradually ridding itself of bad genes.

Hintza

Strider590 wrote: »

I prefer to think of it as Darwins theory, the human race is gradually ridding itself of bad genes.

How; you would need to run a few over to remove them from the gene pool.


Mind you:- If its idiot proof, then nature will evolve a better idiot.

s_b

kids jaywalking gets me
its like they are saying hit me and your car will get hurt but not me
i reckon lots of people today dont know what pain is because of their molly coddled little lives theyve been living in because mummy wont let them out to play in case they get abducted by next doors cat

victor2

May be looking at things through rose tinted glasses, but many years ago, when I was at infant school, most kids walked to school, and part of the education included basic rules of crossing the road safely, which would inevitably cover how to walk along roads with no pavement. Richer kids had bikes and did their cycling proficiency too!