Highway Code experiment

pvr

pvr

Dutch
 Ruler of the South East UK
Had to walk to a shop from where I had parked and thought I would check if I as a pedestrian would survive the newly introduced Highway Code elements.

I would have been killed at every road I crossed, that is for sure. Even when I pretended to walk across, cars turning in the road that I crossed (or coming out) were mouthing all sorts of things.

Don’t think many drivers know the code, that is for sure.
 
pvr said:
Had to walk to a shop grimmigere I had parked and thought I would check if I as a pedestrian would survive the newly introduced Highway Code elements.

I would have been killed at every road I crossed, that is for sure. Even when I pretended to walk across, cars turning in the road that I crossed (or coming out) were mouthing all sorts of things.

Don’t think many drivers know the code, that is for sure.
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Good stuff. :poke:
Think of the extra emissions if we had to stop and wait for pedestrians to use OUR road at every junction.

(Seriously, we need a smiley for rolling a grenade in :D )
 
Any one else play the points game when something other than a vehicle is brazen enough to step onto a public road.

1 point for a standard UK resident.
2 points for a mum and buggy.
5 points for a horse and rider.
100 points for a cyclist.

Adjust points as required, according to your mood on the day. :D :wink:
 
I seem to 'experiment' with the Highway Code every day. Here are two examples.

Whilst driving my car, drivers don't enter the bus lane near where I live and I am able to get all the way up to a roundabout while everyone is queuing alongside the Bus Lane.

On a Dual Carriageway where one lane is blocked by roadworks, I can get very close to the closed lane because most drivers have pulled into the 'open' lane early and are causing a huge queue in that lane.

Drivers eh!
 
Ah yes, where the truck drivers often try to “police” this and get fined themselves instead 8)
 
Students around here have been walking across road junctions without looking for years. Headphones on, glued to their mobiles. Oblivious to the world around them. Even saw an ambulance on blues being forced to a stop by a jaywalking stude not long ago. :slaphead:
 
buzyg said:
Any one else play the points game when something other than a vehicle is brazen enough to step onto a public road.

1 point for a standard UK resident.
2 points for a mum and buggy.
5 points for a horse and rider.
100 points for a cyclist.

Adjust points as required, according to your mood on the day. :D :wink:
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Mum and buggy are a big slow target so easier to hit. Perhaps only 1 point?
 
To be honest I've been giving way to pedestrians crossing roads for years - hardly any of the dozy b*ggers ever look. :headbang:
 
Mr Tidy said:
To be honest I've been giving way to pedestrians crossing roads for years - hardly any of the dozy b*ggers ever look. :headbang:
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Been there, done that, I walked across the road with a group of friends on a night out, completely oblivious of the car approaching, luckily he was paying attention and stopped to let me cross :headbang:
 
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