Cars with no lights

Ich_2

You don't need full lights if it's not dark. All you do is blind other drivers, particularly the poor sod in front of you. Sidelights is fine for twilight and dawn.

I'm sure that the parents of the 13 year old girl that was killed locally some years ago would perhaps disagree!
The inquest decided that the lack of lights on the car that hit her were a major factor in her death.

Don't forget that it isn't about you seeing where you are going but about making sure other road users can see you!!

All new cars are now being fitted with daylight running lights to improve their visibility to others so as drivers anything we can do to make our vehicles more visible - we should do.

(that's why a lot of motorcyclists ride with their lights on dip - so they can be seen by us car drivers)

rustyboy21

If I feel that it is dark enough, or murky enough to warrant headlights on, I will put them on. Street lights do nothing for the street, until it is nightime.

I would rather be seen on the road than worry about running my battery down, which a lot of people, I feel, is what they will do if they switch them on. They don't realise that they are not using the battery, the engine is running them.

It does annoy me when peple don't use their lights when they are required. Volvo had it the right way, lights on all the time.

nonnatus

Ahhhh, OP! So it was YOU flashing at me and the cars behind me yesterday as I was pulling out of the Village. It was 4.30pm and whilst your headlights were gleaming brightly (and your flashing at me caused rapid blinking and panic as I struggled to think who you were and what I'd done wrong) I hadn't thought it necessary to switch mine on.
And it was NOT necessary, so please keep your flashy lights to yourself in future. You cause more problems than you think when you are trying to be all superior and teach the rest of us how to drive

hoo

my pet hate is when drivers have a headlight out and so feel the need to whack the other on full beam, sooo annoying :mad:

And yes I know with new cars it can be more difficult and expensive to change headlight bulbs but its still doesn't make it less growl worthy!!

Peanuckle

We were crashed into a few years back by someone who didn't think headlights were needed, It was 10pm, mid November on a country road with no street lights, the road is bendy but level so you can normally see cars coming for miles away. My DH turned right to head down the hill towards our house, neither of us saw a car speeding towards us until it was almost into the side of the car, sadly by then it was too late to avoid a collision. Luckily there were no major injuries but it was a very scary experience for both of us and three of our children who were in the car. Witnesses later confirmed the car had no lights on at all.