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- From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Hazzard Lights
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.140501.8295@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:05:01 GMT
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- In article <C1GKA9.4Fv@cs.bham.ac.uk>, nht@cs.bham.ac.uk (Neville H Thomas) writes:
- |>
- |> Tripping up and down on the M6, I notice that when traffic
- |> is slowing down, the current trend is turn on the hazzard warning
- |> lights.
-
- This practice is sanctioned, recommended even, in the (latest) Highway
- Code, under specific circumstances which you can discover by going and
- looking it up.
-
- |> I wonder if this malpractice is happening else where (not just,
- |> north of Brum)?
-
- Not a malpractice if done right. The conditions under which it should
- be done are not inconsistent with your description, though "slowing
- down" is not of itself sufficient cause.
-
- I suspect the practice started as one of the signals HGV drivers use
- to each other, and has gradually become accepted.
-
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- Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
- University of Cambridge Computer Lab
- Cambridge UK
-