To think you don’t beep your horn at pedestrians with sleeping children in prams?

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Just had a total arsehole do this to me, when we were crossing the road. Apparently I wasn’t moving fast enough and I got a mouthful of abuse too.

You don’t do that, do you? I have joint pain, severe pain and depression and DS is ASD and I’d just got him to sleep.

Why do some people enjoy being such knobs to others?

You lot are aware not every road has a crossing, right?

I will also stand at the side of a road (without a crossing nearby) to walk across, people will just continue to drive past. I will purposefully walk in front of them. Run me over, see if I claim!

And see that claim thrown out when it was proven you crossed without any due care & attention.

Of course it matters if it's a junction.

Nobody is saying the driver was right to be abusive, but people are pointing out that pedestrians crossing whenever/wherever especially with children or if they're slow isn't exactly a good situation.

Did the traffic have a red light and you the Green Man though?

No Green Man, no crossing the road with a pram. Its really quite simple.

(and if the crossing doesn't have a Green Man, then use a different one to cross)

Nothing to do with your child being asleep, you just don;t beep at people for any other reason the than to let people know you are there is wrong. To beep at a mother and child crossing the road just shows what a total thug the driver is. His problem, not yours OP.

Well you should if you can't cross the road safely in the time that you have.

THIS

How could you be at the bottom of the plus if you came from the east. That means you weren't at the junction at all and couldn't see all 4 roads

Op If you were at a junction and no car was approaching then you had right of way. A car turning at a junction has to give way to pedestrians already crossing.

Pointless - pedestrians don’t always have right of way. Only at authorised crossing -where they have a green man if relevant - or as above at a junction. You cant just wonder into a Road and expect cars to stop!!!!!!

www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-pedestrians-1-to-35

I don't understand the pedestrians that cross roads with small children, in buggies or walking, right out in front of cars. Often the adults are on their phones. I always slow down, or sometimes have to stop. But it is ridiculous. Whilst I would never beep, I do think YABU to risk the life of yourself and your child. It only takes a split second

I also think there should be more crossings on roads.

I was always taught whoever was there first has the right of way, so if I’m walking on the road it’s mine, if a car is there before me it’s theirs

So you think that 'what you were taught' trumps the Highway Code? Really?

I was always taught whoever was there first has the right of way, so if I’m walking on the road it’s mine, if a car is there before me it’s theirs. You were taught wrong. Vehicles have priority on the road. The only time the pedestrian has priority is when the lights are in their favour at a pedestrian crossing, or they are using a zebra crossing.

YABVU and you were very careless with both yours and your baby’s life.

You entered into a dangerous situation (with no right to do so) knowing you weren’t able to run if needed, and then had the gall to be shocked because the person who actually had right of way was rightfully annoyed.

The driver was 100% right to beep his horn, because the Highway Code states to only use them in a dangerous/emergency situation, and you had created a dangerous situation (yet apparently only seem to care it woke your kid up, and not that you placed their life in danger).

The abuse was not acceptable of course, but it sounds like you gave them a hell of a fright and is a red herring in this thread.

Why should I “run”? I was there first, on a cold day. I’m sure someone in a warm car can wait 5 seconds for a mother to cross. Jesus.

No Green Man, no crossing the road with a pram. Its really quite simple.

Where do you live that has every road with one of these?

The driver was 100% right to beep his horn, because the Highway Code states to only use them in a dangerous/emergency situation

I crossed on a road with no cars coming in a built up area, I didn’t push my buggy with my eyes shut into the M1.

What's the speed limit of the road in question OP?

30 mph

I was always taught whoever was there first has the right of way, so if I’m walking on the road it’s mine, if a car is there before me it’s theirs

You were taught wrong, then.

Umm, The UK?

...and yes, when I have DD with me I plan my route to make sure I have appropriate crossings. In an unfamiliar environment, I've been known to go quite far out of my way to make sure I have an appropriate crossing.

DD is far to precious to me to risk her life in the way you've described.

You were taught wrong, then.

It’s just common decency really, something a lot of drivers seem to be lacking in

I’m sorry to hear you have health issues OP, I really am. You were wrong in this case, but I hope you got your DS back off to sleep and are home in the warm now.

Yes, the UK.

That sounds excessive to me. I don’t “plan my routes” either. I go for walks wherever the mood takes us.

Where the frick do you all live where there are pedestrian crossings available on each and every single road you need to cross, or that there is so little traffic you can cross without a car in sight in any direction?

Fantasyland?

People cross roads. It is not unreasonable to do so. Snowflake need to learn to cope with other road users.