LETTER: What happened to safety slogan?
On Wednesday evening I was driving my car over a railway bridge and slowing for a roundabout in Goring when I was confronted with a jogger dressed completely in black, with his back to me running down the centre of the road.
I only saw him when he looked over his shoulder to see if it was safe to cross the road in front of me.
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Hide AdMy immediate reaction was to brake hard causing my car to skid. Needless to say, the jogger did not stop.
On Friday evening, when approaching Littlehampton railway station a bicycle with no lights appeared from the pavement into the road in front of my car and overtook two parked cars.
Again this caused me to execute emergency braking.
When I drew level with the by now weaving bicycle it was being edalled by a young man in dark clothing with a girl on the crossbar.
What happened to using lights and the old safety slogan ‘When out at night, wear something white’?
Stuart Threlfall
Norfolk Gardens
Littlehampton