A woman has given a simple warning to others after her life flashed before her eyes on the way to work.
Sophie Hawkesworth, from Bromborough, was in the middle of a pedestrian crossing outside Spital train station when the incident happened.
The 23-year-old said she was walking across the crossing at around 11am when a driver ran a red light.
Upon noticing the car was not about to stop the accounts assistant said she suddenly stepped back out of the path of the dark blue car, which would have hit her.
Now she is warning other pedestrians not to assume drivers will stop when crossing roads as 'apparently a red light doesn't mean stop for some people.'
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Sophie told the ECHO : "I just felt like my life could have been over at that point, if I just hadn't stopped.
"Because you normally assume the cars will stop for you. So I don't know what made me realise that this person wasn't going to.
"They must have seen me crossing the road and chose not to stop. If I'd have just taken a step forward instead of taking a step back, it would have hit me at speed.
"Just by trying to go to the railway station and get a train to work, I could have died."
Sophie added: "If I was maybe a bit younger or a bit older, and I wouldn't have been as aware, then I probably would have been hit. Which is a terrifying thought when you're just going to the railway station on a Sunday morning."
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