No wonder DRLs are mandatory...

[Exige S]

Driving to football this morning, 8:30am, rural Cheshire, patchy fog, very foggy in places.

I pass maybe 20 cars on the way. Imagine my surprise: ONE person had their headlights on.

Has anyone ever been prosecuted for this? Is there a specific charge related to this, or does it fall under due care?

I guarantee it'll be one of these fking aholes that causes my road to work to be closed tomorrow morning if it's still foggy. I just hope they don't kill someone coming the other way.

/rant

[Special K]

It was the same coming over the Cat and Fiddle this afternoon, I must have passed 15 oncoming cars without their lights on when visibility was down to around 50 metres. Idiots the lot of them !

[Special K]

Oh and by the way .... www.norlog.net

Edited by Special K on Sunday 12th February 23:35

[roscozs]

DRL's are good for road safety. They get a lot of stick for looking crap but they serve a purpose, a very good one at that!

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/12-hurt-seven-ta...

This was I suspect the result of people not driving to the conditions and without any lights. I was infact driving this strech of motorway just before this occoured and the amount of people driving into thick fog banks at 80+mph was astonishing. As was the amount of people driving around with no lights on. Public information films and graphic shots of the aftermath of these such accidents are going to be the only way to educate people, but I fear even that wouldnt deter the sheer stupidity and selfishness of some road users.

[kaf]

Fog needs headlamps.

Most will now quite happily not use them because they have DRL's !

How someone can do effective observations and NOT see a ton or more of car bearing down on them defeats me!

[g3org3y]

Exige S said:

Has anyone ever been prosecuted for this? Is there a specific charge related to this, or does it fall under due care?

I was wondering this also: http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&amp...

I reckon it should carry a fine and points tbh.

[bobbylondonuk]

Speed kills....morons operating machines dont kill.

[bobbylondonuk]

Speed kills....morons operating machines dont kill.

[MC Bodge]

On the way from Trafford into the aforementioned rural Cheshire, there were a surprising number of people driving with only SIDE LIGHTS on in reasonably thick fog and fading light yesterday.

-If you're going to effort of turning on the ~1 candle-power side lights, why not go the whole hog, live a little and, with the same switch, TURN ON THE DIPPED HEADLIGHTS?

Whilst I'm at it, if somebody is driving behind you, and you can see them quite clearly and can see a few cars in front, TURN OFF YOUR FOG LAMPS.

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MC Bodge said:

Whilst I'm at it, if somebody is driving behind you, and you can see them quite clearly and can see a few cars in front, TURN OFF YOUR FOG LAMPS.

Finding yourself doing points-earning speeds down a motorway usually means you're good to leave the fogs off too, plenty don't seem to have twigged that though.

Some things computers are bad at, but I can't help but think this is something they could do a better job than the average moron with.

[tr7v8]

It is great but most cars I've seen with DRLs don't have rear lights on with them. So DRLs make no difference! Example the female driving the AUdi Cab on the M25 a few weeks ago. DRLs on but no bloody rear lights.