Yes, if you encounter a jobsworth pricktreehugger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 8:15 pm Well in my copy it says you MUST switch engine off when getting out of your car, so can you be done if you dont?
The history of the Highway Code, in its 90th year
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Rule 239, https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway ... 238-to-252Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 8:16 pmYes, if you encounter a jobsworth pricktreehugger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 8:15 pm Well in my copy it says you MUST switch engine off when getting out of your car, so can you be done if you dont?
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, section 107
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/198 ... n/107/made
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Re: The history of the Highway Code, in its 90th year
Interesting. I often never bother to on an auto car. Even if not a good idea to...you MUST apply the handbrake before leaving the vehicle
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Autos have handbrakes?
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Re: The history of the Highway Code, in its 90th year
Yeah, to stop the parking pawl being snapped/bent if someone bumps into the car rather hard.
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As a desperately sad eight year old, I read the Highway Code from cover to cover.
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The more rural areas of Wirral still have the occasional old style road signs.
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Re: The history of the Highway Code, in its 90th year
Well it can be stolen by an opportunist, as many are in winter when owners are "warming them up". Insurers will be laughing too.treehugger wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 8:15 pm Well in my copy it says you MUST switch engine off when getting out of your car, so can you be done if you dont?
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Re: The history of the Highway Code, in its 90th year
Nice to see that, down here it would be uprooted and in the Red Field at Beaulieu the following September.Warren t claim wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:20 pm
The more rural areas of Wirral still have the occasional old style road signs.
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