Walking in the dark.

[Charel2girl5]

Evening all.
My DD is 18, in uni but lives at home and commutes. She takes her fitness very seriously and has just left the house for a ‘quick’ walk. I ask her not to it’s too dark in my opinion and she objects, raises her voice to me and slams the door. My DH doesn’t intervene and tells me I can’t tell her what to do! I then asked if he didn’t give a shit about her safety.
I am upset and fuming. For context she does fu** all at home, takes my car which is apparently her car even though I bought the car and pay for insurance. My DH and I are supposed to be going to a local castle and having lunch out afterwards. I real feel like going by myself and telling him to do one.

This post and the many other obtuse posts like it baffle me? Have you really never ever heard of bad things happening to women in the dark? There's plenty of dark history of people targeting women who were out in the hours of darkness! Yorkshire Ripper! Fred & Rise West! The Ipswich murders of 5 girls, Christopher Halliwell, Sarah Everard's killer?
The additional issue with rural roads is that people tend to drive like berks down them plus drivers are blinded by the ridiculous headlights on vehicles now so visibility of someone walking down the side of an unlit road is probably non existent. And as for blaming the OP for living rurally, it's not that much better where I live on an urban estate, the council have turned the streetlights down that much that they barely look on! The green spaces near me where I like to walk ate completely unlit so I won't walk there after dark.

The situation with strangers is SO different than a short time ago -

what is your evidence for this?

the most dangerous place for women is their own home and the people they should fear most are the men who they are or have been in relationships with

the awful cases cited by another poster are anomalies, and in fact those cases span decades- actually the 'situation with strangers' is much the same as it ever was

traffic on rural lanes is a different matter and there is an easy and practical solution, a high vis vest

It will be dark at 4 o’clock soon, though

I understand being uncomfortable being out alone in the dark but you can’t tell an adult that they can’t go for a walk at 6:30, they could be coming back from work at that time

I don't dispute that, I'm bothered by the rude replies that act like they can't understand why the OP is worried and wondering what on earth could possibly go wrong. There's a risk of being hit by a vehicle walking in a pitch black rural road too.