Switch your lights on!!

cajef

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

Doesn't darkness reduce visibility?

Rule 113 contravenes your statement of always.

I give up I cannot believe someone is so stupid to think that driving round with only parking lights on is safe for other road users and pedestrians.:eek:

Sgt_Pepper_2

neilmcl wrote: »

What do you suggest, drive with your lights off! :eek:

You can drive on parking lights.

SailorSam

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

You were able to see them without lights, so why do they need them on?

I went for an Mot a few years ago and failed 'cos i had light out. I tried to tell the tester i never drive of a night so don't need any lights, but he wouldn't have it, i still failed.
Perhaps if you get up this way you could call in that garage and explain your theory on why you only need lights to see others, not for them to see you.

RichardD1970

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

You were able to see them without lights, so why do they need them on?

Don't feed the troll, he obviously has nothing better to do than play silly games and try and prove his superiority of knowledge about the law.
He might be technically correct but common sense should prevail. He is just being bloody minded and obviously enjoys getting a rise out of people.

Sgt_Pepper_2

SailorSam wrote: »

I went for an Mot a few years ago and failed 'cos i had light out. I tried to tell the tester i never drive of a night so don't need any lights, but he wouldn't have it, i still failed.
Perhaps if you get up this way you could call in that garage and explain your theory on why you only need lights to see others, not for them to see you.

Why?

You presented a car with a defect so rightly it failed.

Sgt_Pepper_2

RichardD1970 wrote: »

Don't feed the troll, he obviously has nothing better to do than play silly games and try and prove his superiority of knowledge about the law.
He might be technically correct but common sense should prevail. He is just being bloody minded and obviously enjoys getting a rise out of people.

It appears you're the only one able to read today.

Tilt

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

You can drive on parking lights.

The thread is about drivers not having any lights on at all in poor conditions which is an offence.

https://www.gov.uk/driving-adverse-weather-conditions-226-to-237/overview-226

No wonder you are about as popular as tooth ache on here!

poppasmurf_bewdley

It's been raining here in Worcestershire today and lots of people have been driving with their lights on. Some have even been using their 'fog' lights, front and rear. Yet I can still see the hill over the back of me and that's a mile and a half away, so is that 'reduced visibility'?

It does strike me that some people start panicking the moment anything differs from 'normal' these days. Like those drivers who immediately there is a dusting of snow drive like it's three foot deep in Arctic Canada.

Sgt_Pepper_2

Tilt wrote: »

The thread is about drivers not having any lights on at all in poor conditions which is an offence.

https://www.gov.uk/driving-adverse-weather-conditions-226-to-237/overview-226

No wonder you are about as popular as tooth ache on here!

The offence isn't committed in poor conditions. Reg 25(1) of the lighting regs clearly states seriously reduced visibility.

Tilt

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

The offence isn't committed in poor conditions. Reg 25(1) of the lighting regs clearly states seriously reduced visibility.

And what do you think causes reduced visibility? So when is the offence committed then... in bright sunny conditions? Are you saying that you are one of these idiot drivers who only use their lights at night, no matter what the conditions are during day light hours?

Yet again you are here splitting hairs. You seem to only come on the forum to argue over the most trivial thing to wind people up. Why bother??