Does anyone remember a book called the highway code?

[madein1978]

I'm growing continually more curious about a book that the HMSO once published called the highway code. From what I can see from a copy I managed to acquire from somewhere it tells you what the rules of the road are and a basic instruction on how to use the road!! Can anyone tell me about this apparently scarcely read book, I really am quite curious about it!

[gary baldy]

Wasn't it banned a few years ago along with The Satanic Verses?

[madein1978]

Well, lets face it, they both go against bad practices!!!

[kempie]

The venerable tome of which you write is held in trust for the nation within this ethereal shrine.

Spread the Word!

[madein1978]

And doesn't the word require spreading!!! Not half!!!

[madein1978]

Mirror Signal Manouevre, Volkswagen Golf and BMW drivers TAKE NOTE HERE!!!!!!

[BillyNoMates]

I reckon about 90% of drivers would benefit in owning and reading a current copy. In fact I support compulsory retesting at least every 10 years along with eyesight tests.

[gary baldy]

Come on kids - whats your personal 'ignoring the highway code' pet hate?
Fog Light abuse is mine - followed by middle lane hogging- followed by giving way to a car turning right........
Oh dear now youve got me started.......!

[stanleyman]

Driving too close, overtaking cars coming off a slip road when others also trying to join a dual carriageway, hogging lanes, badly adjusted lights, foglight abuse, too slow driving, trucks holding up traffic for a long time in outside lane, trucks driving too close, tractors on fast dual carriageway and at night, hedgehogs, roadhogs, silly speed limits, speed cameras, policemen with speed cameras, cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists driving on wrong side of road, motorcyclists with flickering headlights, motorcyclists generally, furry dice, baby on board stickers and Ford Fiestas.

[gary baldy]

Hedgehogs!!!!!!!
And i always had you down as such a nice level headed guy stanleyman.

[stanleyman]

Not when I'm driving!

[stanleyman]

Should add that it is previously squashed hedgehogs and any other squashed animal that is a "pet hate", I do my best to avoid them otherwise.

[qapmoc]

Well seeing as the majority of modern ''persons'' don't appear to understand what a book is for anyway it had better be available in CD or on-line format.

[madein1978]

Since I started this I might as well tell you my pet hates about driving on 21st century British roads, No1 on the list has to be tailgating, I LOATHE tailgaters, to the point where I'm buying a Volvo T5 or a Scooby so I can lose them!!! That is until I've got a git in a Mercedes Sprinter van, thats when you got trouble, nothing shakes these ******* off!! The second pet hate is these idiots who can't use turning signals, it would seem to me that the new Volkswagen Passat has no indicators, I've never seen them being used!!! Yes, no wonder I thought the highway code was just a dream!

[rarll]

Over recent months our D.O.E. Roads Division have started to mark roads any way they like. The biggest mess they have made is arrows when approaching roundabouts, the ones they have painted now contradict the highway code completley. Haven't been able to find out who is liable in the case of an accident.

[JudgeJ]

Should you try to get a copy, you will also find that Her Majesty's Stationery Office has now been rebranded as the "Office of Public Sector Information". (Sounds like something out of "The Prisoner")

The reason for this, of course, is because the thought of the word "crown", "monarch", "Her Majesty" or any pictorial representation of any of these is absolute anathema to the current ruling elite.. Denouncing such terms as "old fashioned" or "outdated" seems to justify their thoughts on the grounds of modernisation. However, the Monarchy may have been invented only yesterday and it would still be loathed by the very people who have been elected to protect it.

[Alltorque]

I believe that a copy of this essential little book should be included with every new car sold. In addition, anyone trying to buy a Porsche Cayenne, BMW X5/X3, (what is the point of the X3 ?), Merc ML et al should have to pass a written test on the book's contents before being allowed out. Their attitude, (around here at least), is "here I come, get out of my way inferior person". Rant over.

[Shire]

It should also be read by cyclists, specially the bits about using lights when it is dark and making hand signals when turning.

Also most of the population of Birmingham needs to read the bit about those strange yellow boxes that you get at some junctions and roundabouts

Ditto for tailgaters, mobile phone users, people who drive too fast / slow for the road conditions, taxi drivers, bus drivers and the students at work who will just step off the pavement into the path of an oncoming vehicle without bothering to look at whether or not it is safe to cross