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From: Nick Finnigan on 20 Mar 2010 17:10 Ian Jackson wrote: >> > Isn't it now illegal to park facing the wrong way at night - even > without lights? Nothing particularly new in the Construction and Use regs. Motor vehicles parked at night on a road must have the near side as close as possibly to the edge of the carriageway (i.e. park on the footway if you are facing the wrong way). It is reasonable to assume that near side refers to the left of the vehicle, even if it is a LHD vehicle.
From: Ret. on 20 Mar 2010 17:12 Vicko Zoomba wrote: > On 20 Mar, 21:01, baggy1963 <stephen...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> Isn't it now illegal to park facing the wrong way at night - even >> without lights? >> -- >> Ian >> >> Highway Code Rule 248 >> >> Parking at night >> >> You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of >> the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space. > > But its only effective if It's been taught in lessons and enforced by > plods. > How many beat plods do you think will know that code? > Answers on a postcard please. Not a question of knowing it - but rather having the time to do it. And also I just wonder what the anti-police posters on uk.legal would have to say about officers going about at night putting FPTs on cars parked on the wrong side of the road? Kev
From: Mortimer on 20 Mar 2010 17:14 "baggy1963" <stephenb91(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:b5559480-bcdc-4d0c-8d2b-27eea6cbd0f0(a)d27g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... > Isn't it now illegal to park facing the wrong way at night - even > without lights? > -- > Ian > > Highway Code Rule 248 > > Parking at night > > You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of > the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space. Has that always been the rule? I thought you were allowed to park on the wrong side of the road at night (where not prohibited by yellow lines etc) as long as you parked with your side lights on.
From: DavidR on 20 Mar 2010 19:48 "alan.holmes" <alan.holmes27(a)somewhere.net> wrote in message news:dr8pn.482374$Dy7.304206(a)newsfe26.ams2... > > Park on the wrong side of the road with their headlights full on. > > Which obviously blinds all drivers coming towards them. On similar note, why is it that when giving way behind a parked car, some oncoming drivers think it's a good idea to blast their lights in your face?
From: Ian Jackson on 21 Mar 2010 04:22
In message <b5559480-bcdc-4d0c-8d2b-27eea6cbd0f0(a)d27g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, baggy1963 <stephenb91(a)hotmail.com> writes > Isn't it now illegal to park facing the wrong way at night - even > without lights? > -- > Ian > >Highway Code Rule 248 > >Parking at night > >You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of >the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space. > I'm pretty certain that, in Belgium, in the early 80s, they made it illegal to park against the direction of traffic at any time of day or night. I don't know about other European countries. I might be wrong but, in the UK, isn't illegal to park with your headlights on? -- Ian |