Drivers warned to make use of fog lights correctly or danger £50 wonderful
- Drivers who’ve their fog lights on throughout clear climate may very well be fined £50
Drivers have been warned to make use of their fog lights correctly or danger a £50 wonderful, because the UK faces a -10C freeze this weekend.
Motoring firm Driving Experience has warned drivers to brush up on their data of when to make use of their fog lights.
The firm mentioned that drivers who’ve their lights on throughout clear climate may very well be issued with fines.
The warning comes as snow and ice trigger widespread disruption throughout the UK this morning with trains and flights cancelled and occasions postponed as a result of climate.
Flurries of snow fell in Scotland together with the southeast and southwest of England, with icy rails inflicting an influence failure in Kent.
Drivers braved the misty climate in Richmond Park, south-west London final week
Pictured: Ploughed fields shrouded in fog in Keele, Staffordshire
A commuter waits in a frozen over bus cease in Low Fell, Gateshead ths morning
Operations supervisor Dan Jones informed the Express: ‘Sometimes it’s simple to overlook you will have put your fog lights on as you possibly can’t see them when driving in lighter situations.
‘Failing to take action might imply that not solely might you dazzle an oncoming driver and trigger an accident, you may be hit with a £50 wonderful as a result of breaking the Highway Code.’
According to the Highway Code, drivers ought to use their headlights when visibility is under 100 metres.
The web site reads: ‘You might also use entrance or rear fog lights however you have to change them off when visibility improves.’
Mr Jones added that utilizing fog lights can scale back the imaginative and prescient of different drivers in some circumstances.
He mentioned that 6,000 collisions have been attributable to ‘exterior components’ final yr, which incorporates dazzling lights.
While fog lights are usually switched on and off manually by the motive force, some trendy automobiles have automated techniques to do that.
With these automobiles, it is easy to overlook the lights are on or to assume they’ve routinely switched off when wanted.
The Met Office issued yellow climate warnings for components of the nation this morning as temperatures dropped as little as -10C in a single day.
Parts of Britain even skilled snow final night time – with heavy snow in Scotland inflicting Glasgow Airport to droop all flights.
Flurries of snow additionally fell within the southeast and southwest of England, with icy rails inflicting an influence failure in Kent.
This led to the Southeastern service between Dover Priory and Ramsgate to be suspended.
A homeless man was discovered lifeless in a automobile yesterday in Beeston, Nottinghamshire after freezing temperatures swept the nation, with the fireplace brigade referred to as to free his physique from the automobile.
