Can I go for a drive?

[netflixandsleep1]

After two weeks in the house I'm going a bit stir crazy! My almost two year old DD has special needs and cannot walk and doesn't always enjoy some fresh air stuck in the pushchair but she does love the car and looking out the window!

Can I go for a drive to get us out of the house for a little bit? I'm in my own car which is obviously only used by us and won't be in contact or be physically near anybody else?

I'd go for a quick walk with the pushchair as a first attempt at having a break from the house. It will be better for you, a bit of fresh air, and your daughter will be strapped in whether she's in the pushchair or the car seat.

I would. I wish I had a car to go for a drive. I know we can exercise but I think walking is too risky (live in London) would rather go for a drive.

I've only heard popo on YouTube. Police are called police by adults here and feds by young people (GTA?)

Pumpkin why is walking too risky?

I prefer pigs

Popo? Chavtastic!

I won’t be going for any walks. Too many people around. Where I live it would be hard to keep the 2m rule.

The narcs. (Narks?)

I think if i were in your shoes i'd probably do it OP. Stick to driving carefully round the block or something.

Yes you can: www.linkedin.com/pulse/coronavirus-regulations-guide-exercise-send-parents-julian-norman?fbclid=IwAR06Ue4WkgiEYLNxK6AYX9J58WVpjnqTT6K043g5TA1poCgpXQ_meghfWVI

Drive a long way round to the supermarket

Did you forget about the Stay At Home message? No you can’t go for a drive. This message applies to us all. No matter how inconvenient. No matter how much we think our circumstances should justify it.

Round our way people that drove to the park were given penalties.

You have a pushchair. It would be better to use it to go for a walk. You could walk to a local park and enjoy some time there, following distancing rules and staying away from play parks obviously.

Do you have a DP, could you sit in the car to the supermarket or other essential journey. Your DD can watch your phone whilst you both wait in the car.

@netflixandsleep1

If you can explain your going for a drive as being "a reasonable excuse" for being out of the house, then it's fine.

The matters that are 'reasonable excuse" are listed here in s.6:

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/made

Note that the list is not a complete list because it is introduced by the word "including". If you have a reasonable justification in the light of that list, it is fine.

So for example, if you were able to genuinely say that it was for your or your child's mental health which you considered to be at risk or similar.

The other option is to tag the drive onto something else - so a trip to get necessities.

Round our way people that drove to the park were given penalties.

If the drive to the park was for the purpose of exercise, this is almost certainly unlawful IMO given what the regulations say. There is no prohibition on travel to a place to carry out exercise. Carrying out exercise is a specifically identified reasonable excuse.

Don't do this. Driving a 2 year old around because she likes looking out of car windows just isn't an essential journey by any stretch of the imagination.

If the experience of other countries is taken into account, and the fact that an uptick in travel has already been spotted, driving now will lead to a harder lockdown

I go for a drive everyday . I know people say I shouldnt but I have to leave the house sometimes for my own wellbeing .
I haven’t been asked at all what I am doing and have driven past numerous police cars .

To those concerned about our mental health problems with staying at home - you are not alone. It’s driving us all crazy. But that’s what we have to do.

It’s now law that we can’t just go out and about for no reason. We can get fined if we go out without good reason. Yeah we could all lie to the police “I’m just going to my local shop officer”

But do you not think it would be better that we all follow the guidance to help save lives?

Abroad they are spraying the streets with disinfectant. It therefore follows that they just think the virus is in the streets. Presumably driving our cars miles is picking it up and somehow moving it to other areas? Otherwise why spray the streets, what purpose would it serve? So by driving for no good reason we could be potentially adding to a problem.

There is a killer virus out there. We all have to work together to get through this. Please stay at home unless you are going out for one of the reasons we are allowed to go out for. And walk if you can for exercise.