are you a flasher ?

[briggie]

do you flash your lights to warn other motorists ?

[Deleted account DD]

add not very often at all to the list and I'll tick it :thumb2

[11redrex]

Only lorry drivers. Quick flash, thumbs down, and only if there's a "hazard" ahead.

[briggie]

add not very often at all to the list and I'll tick it :thumb2

there is a sometimes option daved

[Deleted account DD]

there is a sometimes option daved

thats too often ;)

[makeitfit]

I need a box marked "Too bloody right the country's gone mad" then I'll tick it twice :p

[(RIP) PLANK]

i like this as it proves some one was reading my post? :thumb2

[lacroupade]

i like this as it proves some one was reading my post? :thumb2

who are you?:nenau

[Paul]

And get fined £400 :doh No thanks..

[extreme-4x4]

that will teach me to read the thread before voting.... i voted yes , then realised it was about flashing car lights.....

but i suppose i still do in car parks :augie:naughty:naughty:naughty

[makeitfit]

but i suppose i still dog in car parks :augie:naughty:naughty:naughty

New thread anyone? :lol

[solarman216]

New thread anyone? :lol

Sneaky,

[clivvy]

i do sometimes, and only when im not actually in view of the police lol

[rustic]

You need another two options,


I used to flash oncomming drivers as a warning of a speed trap.
To hell with that now.

I may still flash if there is an obstruction in the road, as long as it's not obstructing the Police. OK officer.... or is that an offence too?


What about these ass****s, that when they leave a friend's house, they beep the horn to say good bye...
Surley the host knows they are going.... even after 11:00 pm
2 offences there. :eek: :eek:


Also, people (mostly women), who get in their car to drive home, phone a friend on their mobile, then move off from the car park while still on the phone. WHY ????? Can't they just wait ??? These people are dangerous, but rarely caught.


Are we wrong flashing drivers that haven't put on their lights at night, as they were committing an offence.

Are we wrong flashing drivers or similar gesticulations if they are driving like idiots because they are on the phone and not concentrating on their driving.

If some one steals something in a shop are we depriving the police from arresting them, if we intervene and catch the culprit?


If we stop a policeman ( or anybody else) from being beaten to death, have we obstructed the police by stoping the greater criminal offence of murder, and get it reduced to GBH. :nenau :nenau :nenau :nenau


HOW ridiculous, what happened to common sense.

[(RIP) PLANK]

You need another two options,


I used to flash oncomming drivers as a warning of a speed trap.
To hell with that now.

I may still flash if there is an obstruction in the road, as long as it's not obstructing the Police. OK officer.... or is that an offence too?


What about these ass****s, that when they leave a friend's house, they beep the horn to say good bye...
Surley the host knows they are going.... even after 11:00 pm
2 offences there. :eek: :eek:


Also, people (mostly women), who get in their car to drive home, phone a friend on their mobile, then move off from the car park while still on the phone. WHY ????? Can't they just wait ??? These people are dangerous, but rarely caught.


Are we wrong flashing drivers that haven't put on their lights at night, as they were committing an offence.

Are we wrong flashing drivers or similar gesticulations if they are driving like idiots because they are on the phone and not concentrating on their driving.

If some one steals something in a shop are we depriving the police from arresting them, if we intervene and catch the culprit?


If we stop a policeman ( or anybody else) from being beaten to death, have we obstructed the police by stoping the greater criminal offence of murder, and get it reduced to GBH. :nenau :nenau :nenau :nenau


HOW ridiculous, what happened to common sense.


:bow well said

and it proves that there is no such thing as common sense! It is a meaningless figure of speach. Everyone thinks they know what it means and doesn't!

[lacroupade]

I especially like the one about the unlit car at night.....yes, if we go with the flow you are dead right, potential offence there....but then think about it....if theres a copper waiting round the corner to catch unlit cars you'd be stopped and charged for warning him based on what we've seen. But no copper = nothing to obstruct.

So extrapolating that (and thats painful in Lycra trust me) if the speed copper with the radar gun was having a fag at the time, then again nothing to obstruct is there?....so it would also rely on the copper being able to prove that for 100% of the time he was there, he was entirely focussed on speed detection and didn't stop or have his attention diverted for any reason.....

This 'offence' would have been slaughtered in the right court with the right brief IMHO, and rightly so.

[clivvy]

so my question is, why do cars have flashers on in the first place? if you cant use them whilst driving as they are intended, then the government should ask manufacturers to remove them.

[lacroupade]

so my question is, why do cars have flashers on in the first place? if you cant use them whilst driving as they are intended, then the government should ask manufacturers to remove them.

I still haven't got over the demise of the floor-mounted dipswitch :(

[rustic]

so my question is, why do cars have flashers on in the first place? if you cant use them whilst driving as they are intended, then the government should ask manufacturers to remove them.

There are several versions of the use of flashing lights...

1 In the Highway code, they are used to let other drivers know you are there.
Try letting others know you are there when it's your right of way at a busy junction.

2 I thought flashing lights with the correct gesticulations and horn blowing works most of the time.
They always acknowledge that they have received the message, by gesticulating and light flashing and sometimes slamming on their brakes in the hope you drive into them, years ago I saw a new moon :eek:

3 They are used to let another driver pull out in front of you, however it doesn't mean they can drive across the other lanes of moving traffic, either causing an accident or causing the other driver to hit the brakes hard..

So which is the correct version. :nenau
We all know which one it is, but we choose to ignore it.


If I have left a gap for other traffic to move into (NOT OFTEN I MUST SAY) I no longer flash them or wave them on, in case I have missed the motorcyclist or pedestrian in my hurry to help the other driver.

Their risk, their responsibility.

I will beep or other wise inform them of a situation that they have missed, if it saves life, and property.

[rustic]

I still haven't got over the demise of the floor-mounted dipswitch :(

That'd give Briggie something to do with his left leg in his Auto...:lol

How many mini dip switches have you pressed through the rotten floor then....:eek:

[Kamsin]

Im an EX HGV driver, so its in my blood! In HGV world we use to flash to indicat its safe to pull in when your beeing over taken.

However now; i only do when its needed, like some pilock driving with no lights on or someone forgeting to cancell an indicator.

[Adz]

I flashed today :augie