Iandawn6544’s “overtaking” ban thread (to be) got me doing a Google search to try & turn up more info on it. Didn’t find it (in limited time) but did find these pics:
…and knowing how much you all like looking at piccies
with thanks to the originator. I am not reproducing them, merely pointing you to them.
He loses me on one when he talks about a dual carriageway going all the way upto the end of the central reservation, but it appears to be a single carriageway on approach to the RAB. Anybody else get it?
He means that the section of dual carriageway coming off the roundabout is two lanes wide all the way until the end of the central reservation. On most dual carriageways, the two lanes are squeezed into one by hatched areas 100m or so before the end of the carriageway - this is so the [zb] idiots who try to overtake the most vehicles possible and end up overrunning can overrun into the hatched area, rather than finding that their overrun area is actually the RH lane of oncoming traffic.
And as for the opinions asserted on the website, if people didn’t drive like complete [zb]s, there’d be no need for most of the measures…
Those ‘Foggy’ pics. If I remember correctly, fog-lamps are for use in low visibility conditions. Low visibility used to be defined as less than 100yds. As the lamp posts are over 100yds apart and you can see 3 lamp post (and some), no fog lights should be on at all.
Rear fog lamps should only be used in FOG
Some fools define poor visibility as heavy rain, this makes people think brake lights are on and particularly dazzling at night.
An old mate of mine was stopped near Scratchwood services one night for having his real fog lamps on when there was no fog, He got a 140 quid fine
If ever you see rear fog lamps here, you can bet your life they are fitted to a European or Asian car American car makers don’t fit them
Pat Hasler:
Rear fog lamps should only be used in FOG
Some fools define poor visibility as heavy rain, this makes people think brake lights are on and particularly dazzling at night.
I agree Pat, the law regarding the use of rear fogs also includes the fact lights must not dazzle other motorists and the rainwater just adds to the dazzling effect so do nothing to improve the situation.
It is quite easy to do
Rather than take this thread of topic… if you want me to run through how to do , it post a question on the subject in the computer forum