are you a flasher ?

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[rustic]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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.
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]

Originally Posted by lacroupade

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...

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

[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