To ask why people push their prams on the road when there's a perfectly good pavement?

[CherryChasingDotMuncher]

I've just been in a car park and saw a lady pushing a pram almost have a car reverse into her and her baby. She was pushing the pram on the road, right next to the parked cars, even though there was a large and clear pavement next to her. She then went into a shop so it's not as if she was going back to her car.

I know it would've technically been the driver's fault if she'd been hit, but in all fairness the car was parked between 2 transit vans and did reverse very slowly, and saw her just in time.

I also see this on roads near schools. I often watch my nephew in the mornings and my sister lives near a school. When I turn into her road you can guarantee there's parents with prams 3 abreast walking down the road, with their school children in tow, next to a pavement which is narrow but still wide enough for one pram and a few humans if they don't walk single file. I've very nearly hit so many people as they don't go on the pavement when they come to the junction of her street. We also saw this recently when we were driving down a residential street with a mum pushing her pram with one hand and checking her phone with the other!

Is it just my neck of the woods? Why do people do this?

I wonder if the woman in the car park was taking the most direct line from her car to the shop?

I often walk in the road in the residential streets near my house, this is motivated by the location or lack of dropped kerbs!

I don't see many people walking in the street with prams overall though.

Was there room on the pavement? I know on my street you have to go on the road with a pram or wheelchair as cars park on the pavement

If you pulled in forward the pram would be in the boot so closest to the road, it's hard to get a pram between parked cars to get to the pavement, I'd go to the shop on the street. Because of the way supermarket car parks are designed you have to expect people to be on the road at some time, just to get to their vehicle.

People idiots do this in my area. Perfectly good pavements, adequate drop curbs at all usual crossing places, no cars parked on pavementd and they still stroll three abreast down the middle of the road. Then have the audacity to give me the finger if they have to move because I'm y'know, driving a car on the road. Which is meant for vehicles. It fascinates me.

I have genuinely never seen anyone do this!

I had this once, we braked hard not to run into a guy pushing his kid's pram in the middle of the car park - as he manged to be hidden by the corner of parked cars. There were plenty of other places he could have chosen to stroll, that essentially weren't the middle of the road - like the path ways, the pavements etc

anyway, we brake, he notices and then he starts shouting "oi!! I've got a fucking baby here! be more fucking careful you twats"

As if we had screamed round the corner and mounted the pavement or something!