"dennis@home" wrote in message
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I don't think its illegal, however if you are required to have parking
lights they don't satisfy the law so using them where you need parking
lights would be illegal. You can use them when you don't legally need to
if it makes things safer.

I'm always amazed that having only one rear fog light is legal, given that
in thick fog the fog lights take over from the tail lights as defining the
car's width. My previous cars have come with only the off-side foglight
fitting having a bulb, so I added one on the nearside to make sure all the
lights were doubled, as for brake and tail. The latest one has only a red
light on the offside, and only a reversing light on the nearside which makes
it a pain trying to reverse at night and there's no light illuminating the
hedge/gate-post/wall on the offside (I put my fog light on to light up that
side!). I was once stopped in a marked turn-right lane in the middle of the
road, indicating right, in thick fog. I saw a car come speeding up behind me
(going far too fast) and swerve at the last minute, presumably when he saw
my much dimmer tail light and realised that I wasn't a motorbike after all.

I knew someone who was killed when he cycled into a skip that had been
parked on the road, illuminated only by a red light on the offside. The
inquest suggested that he may have mistaken it for a motorbike parked facing
the oncoming traffic (ie on the RHS of the road) and aimed for the unlit
side which he thought was clear road.