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Article #141Re: Hazzard Lights
From: Martyn Johnson
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:05
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:05
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In article <C1GKA9.4Fv@cs.bham.ac.uk>, nht@cs.bham.ac.uk (Neville H Thomas) writes: |> |> Tripping up and down on the M6, I notice that when traffic |> is slowing down, the current trend is turn on the hazzard warning |> lights. This practice is sanctioned, recommended even, in the (latest) Highway Code, under specific circumstances which you can discover by going and looking it up. |> I wonder if this malpractice is happening else where (not just, |> north of Brum)? Not a malpractice if done right. The conditions under which it should be done are not inconsistent with your description, though "slowing down" is not of itself sufficient cause. I suspect the practice started as one of the signals HGV drivers use to each other, and has gradually become accepted. -- Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge Computer Lab Cambridge UK
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Newsgroups: uk.transport Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!maj From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson) Subject: Re: Hazzard Lights Message-ID: <1993Jan26.140501.8295@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) Nntp-Posting-Host: ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK References: <C1GKA9.4Fv@cs.bham.ac.uk> Distribution: uk Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:05:01 GMT Lines: 24