Results tagged “hazard lights” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

After being one of scores of motorists held up the other day why do people think if they park on a busy narrow road to go in to a shop that somehow putting hazard warning lights on means that double yellow lines no longer count particularly if they also mount the pavement to block both pedestrians and traffic?

And while we are on inconsiderate road users which bit of the highway code, road traffic act or simple common sense says that traffic lights and road signs apply to anyone except cyclists? I came off the Walsall Road at Perry Barr dog track this morning and waited at the lights facing Birmingham City University while a cyclist weaved past me squeezing between cars and turned right across five lanes ignoring a red light completely.

Had he caused or been involved in an accident I would lay odds he would have no insurance and we all know cyclists certainly pay no road tax nor are they required to pass any test to ensure they have even the most rudimentary knowledge of traffic law.

An omission which meant a cyclist coming the wrong way up a one way street by our company car park came close to being flattened last week - one assumes the hand signal he produced in response to almost being killed was merely an inquiry to see it actually was a one way street.