to want to bop every person who drives without their lights on when it is raining or glum and grey over the head

[psychomum5]

oooh it riles me.

if you go out and you have to use your wipers, you should put on your lights, by law. It is in the hand book.

If it is grey and gloomy, you should put your lights on. It is not law, but it is common sense.

If you drive a black car, you even less see-able. For Gods sake, put your light on.

And if you see me flashing at you, if is not to make my car like a flashing pretty christmas tree, it is because you are driving dangerously and barely see-able. I can see you JUST because a car behind you has lights on and shows you up. PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON.

And Please don;t crash into me and then tell me you can;t see ME. I had my lights on and was less than 3mtrs away from you. I WAS SEE-ABLE.

"You should also

use dipped headlights, or dim-dip if fitted, at night in built-up areas and in dull daytime weather, to ensure that you can be seen"

should means it's good advice but you don't have to.

Even I use my headlight and I am on a mobility scooter.

Find it very hard to judge sometimes if cars are on the road or stationary with lights off in this weather, which can then lead to issues with scooting over the road.

I have been driving my friends little boy around a bit recently, he's 18 months and just starting to copy everything you say... I am verrrry worried his first full sentence might be 'Would you put your fucking lights on!!!'. I do try to remember he's in the back & refrain but....

Why does it bother some people if other drivers have their lights on all the time? The only time it should be a problem is if the gits have the wrong kind of lights - then that's the issue, not having them on.

As I said earlier, I have mine on most of the time - it is safer and I'm quite keen to keep all my passengers alive funnily enough.

use dipped headlights, or dim-dip if fitted, at night in built-up areas and in dull daytime weather, to ensure that you can be seen"

This is part of my ranting. Glum weather in the winter is much like dusk, even at 9am in the morning.

use you lights!!

but ban halogen ones. Whoever made those and fitted them in cars should be shot!!

chipping, I always use my light. Even when sunny. It is automatic for me.....get in, seat belt on, turn the key, turn the lights on, drive.

I am keen not to run out of my apparent 9 lives.....I have used four up already

psychomum5

"I have just had car #4 written off :-(. I was driven into each time."

Four cars written off?

How long have you bee driving?

Psycho - shame you don't have ones that go around corners isn't it! Fancy having the audacity to be 'hiding' behind a bus Has the twat been banned?!

As for your DH saying you attract trouble, I hope you twatted him good and hard!!

So according to the highway code you don't need to have headlights on in driving rain on a motorway??

Sorry, but that is just wrong

Yes, you do IF the visibility is seriously impaired, which it would be in the driving rain on a motorway, but not driving in a 30mph zone because of a bit of light drizzle.

good, so op is NBU

pendeen. I have been driving since I was 17. I turn 40 in january , so nigh on 23 years .

I never had an accident (bar minor bumps and scrapes like reversing into bollards when still in the early days, like most new drivers) until I was 27. That one was a rear ended BASH at traffic lights, on a hill, at 28wks pregnant with DS1. Totally not my fault, lights were still red, the lights were however new, so the lady who hit me didn;t know they were there, nor did she see me . Car was written of as the speed twisted the chassis.

Second crash was in 2006. I was going down a busy road that has several roads crossing it, but the road I was on had the right of way all the way down. The man who hit me, on my side, looked left and right but now straight on and drove straight through his cross road bit. He was speeding. I was in a big white previa. He hit my door, the panel behind, then I bounced of him, and he hit me again on the rear wing. It was written off.

Third time, head on, again in a white previa (I like previa's). Ifiot driver had his exit to a road blocked by a bus. He decided to go round it, even tho he could not see traffic on the other side. It was a kind of side/head on/corner crash. All the children in the car, DD1 hit the windscreen, all very bad, all very injured. Another write-off, and he pissed off the police no end, and was prosecuted. No idea what he was sentenced....I ended up with PTSD so just concentrated on me and the children recovering.

This one.....I was on the inside lane of a dual carriageway. I was going past a slip road. The girl who hit me realised she missed the slip road and tried to go down it, looking in her rear view mirror but not to the side of her. Hit me....we were going 50mph roughly.

so.....none my fault, and all in the last 12 years of my driving. If I didn;t have to ferry the children about I would seriously give up driving

A driving instructor confirmed that 'fog lights if visibility is less than 100m' - latest edition of Highway Code.
He also said that 72% of experienced drivers (according to some large scale survey - wasn't paying that much attention hence can't remember which survey) wouldn't pass their test now because of the multitude of changes in the abovementioned HWC.

I drive a silver car, poor visibility means that I put my lights on. If I struggle to see silver/ black cars in the gloom then people are going to fail to see my silver car.

Don't get me started on fog lights, how many people don't know how to use them.

Folks, please learn the highway code and how to use lights.

silver cars yes, they are awful to spot in low visability. Who on earth thought it was a good colour for cars?

Rollmops, I would probably fail. Not due to bad driving, but due to changes in the HWC. I do however know when to use lights ;-)

psychomum5

Gosh you have had some shocking luck haven't you?

Really annoys me when people only use side lights at night. And I don't care what it says in the highway code. The ones who go on motorways with only side lights are particularly annoying

I am still ranty about it.

ESPECIALLY after the hideous weather the past day or so.

and yes, shocking luck, or pure luck. I have survived each time, I think I need to feel grateful for that.