Parking / Highway Code

Harry_Flashman

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

aye, don't think i've ever heard of anybody being penalised for parking the wrong way round or not having parking lights on

Happened to me once back in the early 90s. No lights on a 40mph road

Thomas_Crown

irri_tant wrote: »

Parking on the public highway. Which is the correct way to park?

Like the car on the left with headlights facing oncoming traffic or like the cars on the right with rear lights facing oncoming traffic.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=54.624217,-1.282215&spn=0.000267,0.000699&hnear=TS23+3SR,+United+Kingdom&t=k&z=21&vpsrc=6

Link to relevant info in highway code would be nice please;)

irri tant, oncoming traffic means vehicles driving towards you on the opposite side of the road as opposed to following traffic ie. vehicles approaching from the rear of your vehicle. You appear to be confused about this.

During the hours of darkness you must park your vehicle with the flow of traffic ie. red lights showing to following traffic. It is illegal to park with your headlights on.

Flyboy152

Cash-Strapped.T32 wrote: »

Forgive the large image, ripped off wikipedia (I tried to find a smaller one)



In theory lights should be similar to this (this in an example of a continental or American pattern so it's reversed in the uk); Brighter, more focussed forward on the left, softer with a wider & much softer spread to the right.

If you imagine this car parked, but facing the way of on-coming traffic, you can see that the bright, forward facing bit goes straight in their eyes.

Strider mentioned France (for example) because their pattern is the opposite to ours, as-is the Americans, and everyone else who drives on the insane-side of the road



*EDIT* Even motorbikes use this sometimes although you wouldn't get far with a large, singled-bulbed bike.
I won't clog this thread, but on an Aprilia forum I sometimes frequent, there's photos from an American guy who did an HID-swap on his bike that uses a single light-housing.
Boy-racers with blinding lights being a pet-hate, he skilfully cut the reflectors & mounted the 2x HIDs in such a way that this beam "cut-off" lights the road ahead of him like a runway, but was always kept below the eye-line of drivers on his left.

Yes, I am fully aware of this, but I was asking Strider why he felt the need to point out that the UK was somehow different to other countries.

irri_tant

Update, two days on the trot and he's parked the 'correct' way round. :j

Probably his mother asking him so he's not stepping out onto the grass and bringing in the mud into the house. Nothing to do with the HWC. :rotfl: