"Dave" wrote in message
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Mark wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:13:30 +0100, "dennis@home"
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"Mortimer" wrote in message
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The lights that really knacker my vision are rear (red) fog lights when
I'm travelling right behind and brake lights kept permanently on when
drivers are stationary in a queue of traffic. Why can't people use ther
handbrake rather than footbrake when they are stopped at traffic lights?

Its just more poor driving.
If you were taught by a proper instructor you would use your handbrake.
Its the ones that think I have passed my test.. now I can start to drive
that cause most of the problems as they don't have a clue as to why the
rules are there.


Excerpt from highway code:

"236. You MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is
seriously reduced (see Rule 226) as they dazzle other road users and
can obscure your brake lights. You MUST switch them off when
visibility improves."

It's good practise to use the handbrake when waiting at traffic
lights.

Along those lines...


How many drivers understand, when joining a motorway from a slip road,
that the broken white line at the edge of the slip road, adjacent to the
motorway is actually a give way and be prepared to stop line?

Dave

But how many also try to join a road doing at least 60mph, by driving their
own vehicle at 30mph? It's reached the point now that I hate having anyone
in front of me on a slip road, because I just know that they are going to
make a hash of the joining procedure, and as a result, interfere with my
joining of the road. Bring back PIFs on the TV, so that these issues can be
taught to the marching morons that now inhabit this country, using cartoons
that they will understand ...

Arfa