Is it safe to walk in London alone as a woman in the early hours of the morning?

[PinkCardigan93]

I may have to walk 3 miles alone next week in the Ascot area, to get to work for 5.30am for a contract. My car is at the garage and there are no trains running that early.

Is it safe? I'm not from London so thought I'd ask here!

The reason why my first thought wasn't all the billions of journeys made by women that don't end up in kidnap and murder is because we don't hear about them. No woman I know would set out at 4.30am in the dark to walk three miles in an area they don't know - too risky. That's common sense - not a troubling way to view the world.

I would do it in central London for sure but not in a more rural/country area.

Sometimes rape isn't premeditated - it's opportunistic. Best to stay in well-lit areas with people around in places you don't know at 4.30am to 5.30am.

No, my first thought if someone is going on a cruise isn't the Titanic - it was yours though lol

I totally agree with you about walking alone at 4:30am.

Just odd that your first thought was two women who were abducted mid-afternoon. Do you not walk alone mid-afternoon either? Presumably, that's where the evidence points!

My first thought when someone mentions a cruise ins't the titanic! I'm generally more optimistic 😂

Milly Dowler was a child of 13, not an adult woman as you say (let's get the facts right). As I said, there is evidence to suggest Claudia Lawrence was abducted early morning, not mid-afternoon as you've said twice now.

The original post is about 2 things: safety in an area that is generally considered safe as it is leafy and nice (Ascot) and walking to work early hours of the morning and the safety in doing that.

It is not therefore that "odd" as you keep implying to recall to mind 2 examples where neither point has been safe - nice, leafy Walton-on-Thames in Milly's case and an early morning walk to work in Claudia's. I think it more odd not to remember incidents like these when doing a risk assessment on your safety, which is what the OP was doing with her post.

You're being ridiculous and antagonistic with your little barbs about me not walking mid-afternoon. How stupid. Of course I do. "Presumably, that's where the evidence points!" What a superior, nasty little thing to say - I don't have extreme anxiety that leaves me incapable to leave the house but what if I did? Your nasty remark plus the earlier one "You should look into that" wouldn't exactly be helpful or nice, would it? So why try and put me down?

I've explained twice now my thought process of why I thought of Milly and Claudia. Read Catnipandcupcakes' post on page 3 to aid your understanding. What we're both saying is no matter how nice an area, no matter what time of day women are never guaranteed to be safe and you should consider these things in doing a risk assessment.

Optimism shouldn't play a part in doing an assessment on your safety - more fool you if it does.

Now please stop picking at me. It shows you up as not being a very nice person.

I'd walk in London at any time.
Ascot? No idea 🤷🏻‍♀️

Jesus get a grip!

Nothing is "perfectly safe" and to think so is naive. Look at what happened to Sarah Everard. It's not worth the risk.

Bit mean. It's generally not safe for women to walk alone at night/early in the morning. If you think it's safe perhaps you're naive.

Agree with you here! It doesn't matter what time of day it is. Women have been abducted at all times of day and night and on busier roads and quieter places. Early in the morning/late at night there are less likely to be people around to help, if anybody strange approaches you or bothers you. To think otherwise is incredibly naive. But some people like to be risk takers thinking it will never happen to them, I guess.

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