Jogging safety

Press, 15 July 1982, Page 16

Jogging safety

Sir, — I write to support the remarks made by Detective Senior-Sergeant Dalzell re jogging safety. The fact remains that any person, male or female, out jogging during the hours of darkness should take reasonable steps to ensure their own safety. To say that Hagley Park is well populated by runners at 6 a.m. is, from my own experience, an exaggeration. While I have every sympathy for the woman concerned, ’there is a perfectly adequate footpath along the Park Terrace side of the river, well lit, with the added security of passing traffic. Indeed it is easy to circumnavigate the whole of Hagley Park without venturing along any of the secluded paths. Incidentally, how the runners manage to see where they are going in the dark is a mystery to me, but to those who have the time and inclination to follow this masochistic sport when most of. us would prefer to be sleeping good luck — but remember the back streets, of Burnside are likely to be just as hazardous as the meandering paths of Hagley. — Yours, etc., (MRS.)A. SMYTHE. July 13, 1982.