Barefoot driving

[Lois]

With all this hot weather recently I've actually taken a fancy to driving with no shoes on. However, a friend of mine advised me that this was illegal due to not being able to press the break hard enough in an accident. Now I've never heard of this before...is it true?!

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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I have heard it's illegal too but never been absolutely sure!!!

[oggs]

No not illegal at all

[anonymous-user]

garyhun said:

anonymous said:

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I have heard it's legal but never been absolutely sure!!!

As I thought

[Lois]

have you got quotefever?!

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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Might have.... I was actually pretending I got it right first time!!! If you notice my original reply said I thought it was illegal!!!

Pooh... now I've admitted the error of my ways

[chilled]

It's certainly illegal in Australia. Don't know about the UK though.

[Lois]

I figure it's still a damn site safer than driving in flip flops

[hollypop]

anonymous said:

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My flip flops keep getting stuck on the carpet! Not great for driving so I have some spare driving shoes.

[EmmaP]

Never wear slip-ons when driving. As you say, they get stuck in carpet. Decided to never wear anything other than thin soled trainers or proper shoes after my foot slipped off the brake pedal trying to do an emergency stop. Vanity goes out the window when it comes to safety.

[Yugguy]

The missus drives in bare feet all the time in summer, better than flipflops.

[zcacogp]

There are two forms of footwear that it's illegal to drive with in the UK - Wellington Boots and Bare Feet.

(I was told this by an off-duty copper, as we watched a farmer take off his wellies and drive barefoot instead.)


Oli.

[gretchen]

anonymous said:

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Now I've never heard of that I washed/polished car on Saturday and was out in bare feet, drove it up under some trees for shade without putting sandals on and did consider at the time how the hell people can drive bare foot? I found it most uncomfortable.

I do know a chap who doesn't wear shoes, walks round town bare feet and drives a landy. His soles must be like leather!

[puggit]

I always wear shoes when I drive - in the event of an accident its going to be a hell of a lot easier to escape the vehicle and potentially the incident area with decent footware on.

Likewise when flying I won't take my shoes off until the plane is well and truly airborne, and will have replaced them before landing.

[lazyitus]

I do it alot.

I don't think its illegal at all.

If it was, surely we'd have CCTV inside footwells by now, all rigged up to the local constabulary via giant plasma screens. All paid for by us, naturally.

[CommanderJameson]

zcacogp said:

There are two forms of footwear that it's illegal to drive with in the UK - Wellington Boots and Bare Feet.

(I was told this by an off-duty copper, as we watched a farmer take off his wellies and drive barefoot instead.)


Oli.

I can find nothing in the RTA1988 or the RTOA1988 that even mentions the driver's footwear.

I think that driving in wellies or your bare feet is legal, if somewhat uncomfortable.

[Gaffer]

I drive Poser in bare feet, Dot always drove TVR's in bare feet as well.

I dont have any issues especially in this weather and my trainers are melting onto my feet.

Claire

[hot66]

zcacogp said:

There are two forms of footwear that it's illegal to drive with in the UK - Wellington Boots and Bare Feet.

(I was told this by an off-duty copper, as we watched a farmer take off his wellies and drive barefoot instead.)


Oli.

anyone know if the welly boots thing is actually true? ( I work in farming)

[CommanderJameson]

hot66 said:

zcacogp said:

There are two forms of footwear that it's illegal to drive with in the UK - Wellington Boots and Bare Feet.

(I was told this by an off-duty copper, as we watched a farmer take off his wellies and drive barefoot instead.)


Oli.

anyone know if the welly boots thing is actually true? ( I work in farming)

I refer my honourable friend to the answer I gave some moments ago.

[bga]

zcacogp said:

There are two forms of footwear that it's illegal to drive with in the UK - Wellington Boots and Bare Feet.

(I was told this by an off-duty copper, as we watched a farmer take off his wellies and drive barefoot instead.)


Oli.

Senior Trafpol mate of my dad says there is nothing illegal with driving barefoot unless it would cause you to have poor control of vehicle, but IIRC that extends to any footware. Bro was in crash & guy tried to take him to court to recover costs, part of case was that bro was barefooted & not in control (despite him being stationary......). My brother asked this trafpol mate & the insurers & they both said same thing. If it was a penalty offence, police would be queued up outside beaches as they would generate much more revenue than scameras in the area.