to wonder why people stand with the buggy in the road.

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I am beyond sick of seeing people standing on the pavement with the buggy sitting in the road as they wait to cross the road.

Obv I don't drive right by the curb but it frightens me.

People also regularly push their buggies into the road as I turn into my street. I drive very very slowly and carefully but IMO you should look before you start to cross the road, not see if its clear with your baby in their pram.

Grrrrr.

Biccy to clarify (because I understand your point and do know that pedestrians have right of way) my street is off a busy shopping street.

People appear unaware that it is a road they have to cross and not just an extension of the pavement, they will walk onto the road without looking. I am very aware of pedestrians and always stop but it worries me that one day it will be clear and I will go forward but someone will walk out in front of the car without stopping to see if there is any traffic and I will hit them.

A lot of people walk out in front of the car and seem shocked that its even there because they have not looked. This has happened a few times with a buggy and they have simply not looked and it terrifies me!

I hate crossing roads. On my street you have about two options, you can either push the buggy in front of you, probably slightly too far into the road, lean over it to see around the parked cars and run for it or put the buggy behind you with the brake on (it's a steep hill) and make sure it's safe, but then in the 2 seconds it takes to get the buggy and take the brake off it might not be safe any more. I tend to use the first one on the premise that if anything came I could pull the buggy back.

Biccy - you pedant you - do you know, or can you find, the rules in the HC for when both cars, coming from oposite directions, want to turn off a main road into a side road and there aren't any markings. I can't find it and having lived & travelled so much in other countries my memory of the UK rule has faded into oblivion...

I am sorry for the loss of the old roundabout rules - not sure if they were actually in the HC, but it was better when people indicated 'better' - wasn't it TigerDriver...

Sorry for the cheeky hijack!!

Them was the days, Chipping

Just reminded me of the time about a zillion years ago when I had a Renault 4 whose indicators stopped working and I had to use hand signals all the way from Weymouth to Oxford. Strangely enough some people reciprocated, but I couldn't find those signals in the Highway Code.

LOL I don't think anyone under 'a certain age' would even consider doing 'hand signals' these days... I think I'd about die of fright if someone did. As it is, I get quite excited enough when someone bothers to indicate...

Chippingin I think you after rule 181

Biccy - thanks for that, but it wasn't what I meant, let me try again....

Cars both on main street, coming from opposite directions and turning into the same side street (not opposite streets as in rule 181).....

Thanks