HGV trailer parking in layby

[Smiljan]

[Pathfinder52]

Part-1
Principal Road Safety Provision
Road Traffic Act 1988

Section 22

Leaving vehicles in dangerous positions.

If a person in charge of a vehicle causes or permits the vehicle or a trailer drawn by it to remain at rest on a road in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to [F142 involve a danger of injury] to other persons using the road, he is guilty of an offence.

[Pathfinder52]

Smiljan said:

Is it illegal to park a HGV trailer in a layby and leave it there with the trailer facing traffic (ie facing the wrong way)?

I only ask as my favorite pit stop layby I use for a breakfast break now and again has had a HGV trailer dumped there facing the wrong way for months, it struck me that if someone hit it in a car it would be game over. I guess it's no different to hitting the back end of the trailer at speed but it just didn't look right. The trailer is in the layby just at the start of it and the main road (60 limit) runs right alongside with no divider or setback.

Is it illegal or just unusual for a trucker to do that?

Part-1
Principal Road Safety Provision
Road Traffic Act 1988

Section 22

Leaving vehicles in dangerous positions.

If a person in charge of a vehicle causes or permits the vehicle or a trailer drawn by it to remain at rest on a road in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to [F142 involve a danger of injury] to other persons using the road, he is guilty of an offence.

[Blackpuddin]

Is it still there, years later? We need an update!

[Vipers]

Ardennes92 said:

Not sure about the legality of parking a trailer facing oncoming traffic but isn’t rear under-run protection fitted to the rear along with lights/reflectors; wouldn’t fancy hitting either end but the front looks a lot more dangerous

Trivia, re the under-run protection you mention.

They are called the Mansfield bar, it was created after the death of actress Jayne Mansfield, whose tragic end came at the horrifically young age of 34 when the car she and her children were riding in slammed into the rear of a semi truck.

Her daughter survived and plays Benson in a TV series “Law and Order Special Victims Unit”, her name is Mariska Hargitay, not that I watch it of course, I usually scroll around PH site when er’indoors watches it, that’s my story and I am sticking to it

[Vipers]

If we knew where it was we could check on google maps, if it has been updated may see it it’s there or not.