Re: No lights

Article View: uk.transport

Article #192

#192

From: R.J.Woolley
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:44

23 lines
1370 bytes

In article <1993Jan11.154036.27241@medusa.prime.com> jonh@CIS.Prime.COM writes:
>Yesterday afternoon I was travelling on the M4 in high winds and driving rain,
>the spray made the visibility extremely poor. I was following a police
>car in the middle lane at about 60mph. An idiot overtook both of us 
>in the outside lane at around 80mph WITH NO LIGHTS at all. To my
>amazement the police car continued at the same speed and took no
>action.
>
>Does anybody know whether it's illegal to drive in bad conditions
>without lights; and if it isn't - should it be? IMHO the driver in
>this case was guilty of careless driving at the very least.

 As far as I'm aware driving without lights in poor conditions is just as 
illegal as driving at night without lights. Regarding speeding I believe Essex police on the M25 have the following attitude:

70 - 80 MPH
80 - 90 Stop and warn
90 + Ticket

Any comments?

Rob.
<R.J.Woolley@uk.ac.lut>

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1993Jan12.094422.27448@lut.ac.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!keele!nott-cs!lut.ac.uk!ttrjw

References: <1993Jan11.154036.27241@medusa.prime.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!keele!nott-cs!lut.ac.uk!ttrjw
From: R.J.Woolley@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: uk.transport
Subject: Re: No lights
Message-ID: <1993Jan12.094422.27448@lut.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:44:22 GMT
References: <1993Jan11.154036.27241@medusa.prime.com>
Reply-To: R.J.Woolley@lut.ac.uk (Late Login Merchant)
Distribution: uk
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Lines: 23

Reply to Parent Message