Double White Lines

Car_54

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I'll take your word for it. My 1970's copy of the Highway Code is long lost.

It was only asked one question. That one.

I think your memory of the test may have faded with time - mine certainly has. The norm was to ask 4-6 questions, but anecdotally the examiners would sometimes skip over them, presumably either if they were happy with your driving, or had clearly failed.

When I sat mine (1967) they didn't even have to tell you why you'd failed.

Robisere

Near me on the Wolds, is a double hill, with a deep dip in between the hills. There is a crawler lane on each uphill stretch, for overtaking slow traffic. Going down this stretch on either side to the roundabout in the centre is perilous, especially at holiday times. Some barmpots will overtake on the downhill stretch, into the uphill crawler lane, which has solid white line on the single-lane downhill stretch. It is a fast bypass (A16) which has the signed, derestricted national limit and a camera around the first bend, which catches out many people.

Motoring Muppets are everywhere and they don't have many accidents. But they cause hundreds!

Gloomendoom

[quote=[Deleted User];73165139]I think your memory of the test may have faded with time - mine certainly has. The norm was to ask 4-6 questions, but anecdotally the examiners would sometimes skip over them, presumably either if they were happy with your driving, or had clearly failed.[/QUOTE]

No, I remember my driving test like it was yesterday. Like you say, being asked only one was unusual, which is why I remember it. How well you did in your driving test was quite competitive in my circle of friends. The fewer questions you were asked raised you higher in the one-upmanship stakes.

That said, I suspect it was a far easier to pass first time then than it is now.

Wig

Gloomendoom wrote: »

No it isn't.

That is unless the law has changed since the 1970's when I took my test.

I got asked what I would do if I came across a vehicle parked on a road with double white lines. Would I cross the lines to pass? My answer was that vehicles are not allowed to park on a road with double white lines.

Apparently, I was correct.

You didn't answer the question...;) So your answer would have been taken to be incorrect.

George_Michael wrote: »

[quote=[Deleted User];73162007]No, it isn't. It's only legal to overtake pedal cycles, horses and road maintenance vehicles displaying the appropriate sign.

And stationary vehicles.[/QUOTE]

You pass a stationary vehicle, not overtake so strictly speaking Car 54 was correct.

Gloomendoom

Wig wrote: »

You didn't answer the question...;) So your answer would have been taken to be incorrect.

Who knows how the examiner took my response. My statement that the situation shouldn't arise because parking isn't permitted was correct and he may have been satisfied with that. In any case, he was happy to give me my ticket.

Strider590

Jackmydad wrote: »

But the markings, or any other mandatory road signs or markings aren't a matter for individual discretion, not matter how silly they might appear to be.
They might be silly, but they still need to be obeyed.

I might think that a lot of speed limits are silly. They're often either too high, or too low after all.
They leave the driver little discretion as to what is safe in a given situation.
Still you ignore them at the peril of losing your licence.

If rules are stupid and inexplicable then people will ignore them.

The council decided to make the entrance to one of their car parks one way (the one next to Aldi), one way for only half a meter, you now have to drive 1 mile or more around the town, through 3 sets of busy traffic lights, past a busy Tescos and across one roundabout to get to the other entrance, most people including myself just drive over the 0.5 meter of one way tarmac. It's just off a side road too, so there was never a problem caused by in being a 2 way entrance/exit.
If i'm honest I think someone on the council got a backhander from one of the larger supermarkets, but we'll never know.

This is the kind of nonsense i'm talking about though, it encourages people to break rules and the less stable folk may take that with them and start doing it elsewhere.

Car_54

George_Michael wrote: »

And stationary vehicles.

Since we're being pedantic, the offence is not overtaking, but failing to keep the entire vehicle (not just the wheels) to the left of the white line. There are other exemptions:

(a)to enable the vehicle to enter, from the side of the road on which it is proceeding, land or premises adjacent to the length of road on which the line is placed, or another road joining that road;

(c)owing to circumstances outside the control of the driver;

(d)in order to avoid an accident; and

(h)for the purposes of complying with any direction of a constable in uniform or a traffic warden.