Driving with sidelights in built-up areas?
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From: Dermit Goldstein on 14 Dec 2009 14:13 What exactly are the rules in regard to lights? Quite often you see London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around using only 10W (?) sidelights.
From: Conor on 14 Dec 2009 14:35 In article <4b268dbd.85219562(a)news.x-privat.org>, Dermit Goldstein says... > > What exactly are the rules in regard to lights? Quite often you see > London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around using only > 10W (?) sidelights. Basically you can in a streetlit 30MPH area. Some muppets drive down NSL DCs on them though. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Martin on 14 Dec 2009 14:42 "Conor" <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote in message news:MPG.2590a3c2cf49f26e989a14(a)news.eternal-september.org... > In article <4b268dbd.85219562(a)news.x-privat.org>, Dermit Goldstein > says... >> >> What exactly are the rules in regard to lights? Quite often you see >> London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around using only >> 10W (?) sidelights. > > Basically you can in a streetlit 30MPH area. Some muppets drive down NSL > DCs on them though. Some muppets, like the one I overtook the other day, drive with *no* lights whatsoever on a motorway in the pitch darkness (ie not just at twilight). How the guy managed to see where he was going, I do not know. Mind you, he *was* pootling along at about 40 mph. I was first alerted to his presence when I saw loads of cars in front of me but behind him turn their lights off and on several times as they came up behind him. I did likewise when it was my turn to overtake him. With hindsight, I should have taken his number and reported him to the motorway police, because his unlit car was a danger to other motorists. I hadn't realised that it was legal to drive in darkness with only side lights, as long as the road was illuminated by streetlights.
From: Dermit Goldstein on 14 Dec 2009 14:51 On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:35:03 -0000, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: >In article <4b268dbd.85219562(a)news.x-privat.org>, Dermit Goldstein >says... >> >> What exactly are the rules in regard to lights? Quite often you see >> London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around using only >> 10W (?) sidelights. > >Basically you can in a streetlit 30MPH area. I wonder why more people don't? >Some muppets drive down NSL >DCs on them though. Yes, I've seen that too.
From: Martin on 14 Dec 2009 16:18
"Dermit Goldstein" <dgoldstein(a)charter.net> wrote in message news:4b2696c8.87535500(a)news.x-privat.org... > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:35:03 -0000, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > >>In article <4b268dbd.85219562(a)news.x-privat.org>, Dermit Goldstein >>says... >>> >>> What exactly are the rules in regard to lights? Quite often you see >>> London taxis (particularly the older ones) driving around using only >>> 10W (?) sidelights. >> >>Basically you can in a streetlit 30MPH area. > > I wonder why more people don't? Probably because they want to see where they are going, with better illumination than you get from crappy low-pressure sodium (vivid orange) street lights. If only high-pressure sodium (pale peach-coloured) street lights were compulsory on all lit roads. Oh, and I think side/tail light bulbs are 6W. ;-) |