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stationary at traffic lights
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thought of it as my right to remain silent as it were, the policeman asked me several times and I still didn't say anything.
I got a producer later as a standard police procedure but nothing was wrong with my car anyhow.
I was once pulled over for driving over a mini roundabout, I argued the toss and got away with it. It was 12 midnight what was the point.
I think there are laws about not sounding your horn in a built-up area after a certain time of night, so if it was at night, then maybe that's why the person was fined.
Cockney_si - why on earth did you think that tooting your horn at the other driver would make him speed up? If it was an inexperienced or nervous driver, all you probably did was get them even more flustered and make the situation worse!
It is an offence to sound your horn between the hours of 11.30pm and 7.00am.
However, in the highway code it states that your horn is to be used only to advise other road users of your presence, e.g. when going round a blind bend, over a hump back bridge etc.
To beep at someone in front of you in a traffic queue is not using the horn in the manner allowed in the highway code and therefore the fuzz were right to book him.
Also as soon as the police signalled for me to to pull over the car roared away leaving me to it. Typical.
Sounding your horn in the highway code:
Rule 92: The horn. Use only while your vehicle is moving and you need to warn other road users of your presence.
I suppose the motorist could have been booked. However if they were appraoching the traffice lights and they had been on green for some time until they arrived behind the car still waiting at the lights the horn approach could have been a valid reason I guess.