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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Hazzard Lights
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:29:49 +0000
- Message-ID: <9301271929.AA05947@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
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- :|> It should be an ofence to use emergency flashers when there is no real
- :|> emergency. Drivers who use hazard warning lights while parked at the side
- :|> of a street should be booked automatically for, on their own admission,
- :|> causing a hazard. If the nearside light is obscured you can never tell
- :|> whether a vehicle is signalling to pull out or is just parked.
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- :Rubbish. Where I live there is a shortage of parking space, because
- :...
- :supplies, and local people need tradesmen and services. I am the first
- :to complain about unnecessary obstruction and the "immunity" some
- :people claim for their hazard lights, but at the same time it is
- :sometimes necessary to be a "hazard".
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- Only very occasionally is a parked car with hazard lights on a hazard (and
- if it is, it shouldn't be there). The vast majority I see appear to be
- people who think hazard warning lights mean 'Don't book me for parking, I
- won't be more than a few seconds'. (Then of course they disappear for
- ten minutes...)
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- G
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