Petition to sort out front fog light misusers?

crr003 · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 1140 Location: Wirral

Anyone concerned enough about front fogs? Here's your chance:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/frontfoglights/

saabfan · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 6

It does annoy me slightly when people have them on for no reason but I must admit, they've never dazzled me or annoyed me anywhere near as much as when people leave their rear fogs on.

jamei · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 13

I have always found misadjusted headlights to be much more of a problem, though there isn't much as disproportionately annoying as a superfluous rear fog Evil or Very Mad

Silk

golf_driver · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 40

Never mind stricter penalties, how about they just enforce the ones that exist currently. The use of front fogs per se isn't necessarily that annoying (except for when people are using them purely because they believe it makes their car look better... it doesn't). Although, on several occasions I've seen people in the dark on sidelights and front fogs, or people using front fogs with a headlight out and that does kind of irritate me... (although I'm working on it in group Wink

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TripleS

Renny · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Fife, Scotland

golf_driver · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 40

At the risk of starting an argument I would say that I've seen a lot of people carry out manoeuvres well within the speed limit that were much more dangerous than someone doing 65 in a 60 at a given point in time, i.e. with a gap whereby they could stop in the space they could see to be clear on their own side of the road (in fact, they could have done if they were doing 90mph)

To me someone with their front fogs on in good visibility is someone that is either unaware of the law or has chosen to disregard it, and in the case of the later is much more likely to commit further infrigments in terms of speeding, etc.

I'd like to see a return (I'm in my 20's, so I'm guessing it'll be a return, I didn't catch the matinee Wink

) to common sense policing whereby dangerous driving is more important than getting clocked at 3mph over the limit. That sort of thinking encourages people to spend far too much time looking down at their dials and not enough time maintaining all round observation.

ScoobyChris · Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 1033 Location: Andover, Hants

michael769 · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 166 Location: Livingston

golf_driver · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 40

lol... ok, both of those examples aside Very Happy

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vannut · Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 29

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Dave_434 · Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Posts: 11

As i'm sure you all know, people driving with their auxillary lamps illuminated can be issued a £30 Non-endorsable conditional offer of fixed penalty if the lamps are being used inappropriately. Not many police officers will actually enforce this, from my experience.