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- From: nib@crosfield.co.uk (nigel bromley)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Hazzard Lights
- Message-ID: <16006@suns6.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 07:57:58 GMT
- References: <C1GKA9.4Fv@cs.bham.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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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 hazard warning
- >lights....
- >I wonder if this malpractice is happening else where (not just,
- >north of Brum)?
-
- I believe this is officially sanctioned now, the law having been changed
- specifically to allow it.
-
- But am I the only one to have noticed a problem with it? Several times I
- have been confused where the car (A) in front of the one in front has used
- hazard flashers on approaching a jam; the car in front obscures my view of
- the nearside indicator, so I imagine that A is indicating to change lane.
-
- A similar thing happens with a car or truck parked in a line of cars on the
- left, typically a delivery lorry outside a shop. Cars passing see only the
- off-side hazard flasher, and assume the truck is intending to pull out.
-
- I think the flash pattern should be different between hazard and normal
- use.
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