THE FOG

Broady21.pb · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:41

Hi all

As most will know, it's been very foggy the past couple of days, and I am just in shock at how many drivers drive round with no lights on what so ever :mad:

Yesterday I seen a near miss between two cars, and then today a HGV just managed to break and miss a school bus with no lights on in the fog. What should or could be done about this type of thing??? I think it should come under: Driving without due care and attention.

Mynight · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:44

Afaik it's not illegal to not use them but could cause issues with your insurance should you have an accident.

Iron-man · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:46

Those who choose to drive without I imagine would create an issue for themselves if they crash without lights in the fog(insurance wouldn't be happy) Not to mention its silly and surely would be the first thing you would think of in the Fog

theone8181 · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:49

I think it's worse the vast majority of people who are unable to understand that fog lights are pointless when in a queue.

BusError · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:49

Well, there's the other way around too, people who leave their rear fog lights on all the time, even in traffic, so they can burn your retina.

scorza · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:49

Mynight said:
Afaik it's not illegal to not use them but could cause issues with your insurance should you have an accident.

I think it is illegal not to use headlights if visibility is poor (<100m). There's no requirement to use fog lights, which are largely useless unless it's especially foggy, however there is a requirement to turn off fog lights when visibility improves (how I wish they'd enforce this with extreme prejudice). Over to the Motors crowd to show how I'm wrong

theone8181 · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:50

I think it's worse the vast majority who don't understand that foglights are pointless when you're in a queue.

Hitman_Leon · 3 Nov 2015 at 18:50

Stupid people, no lights on or fog lights when not needed! maybe you should have put this in motors.

My village this morning which has normally quiet country lanes where most of the time it's quite hard for just 2 cars to pass and a nice one in 10 hill was turned into a nightmare this morning. An accident on busy the main road meant everything came through the village from around 7-30am until around 2pm, it was Russian roulette in the fog getting out of the village this morning.

dholdi · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:00

BusError said:
Well, there's the other way around too, people who leave their rear fog lights on all the time, even in traffic, so they can burn your retina.

Absolutely, on my way home last night on the M55, it was slightly misty but visibility was easily 1/2 a mile, if not more, and 95% of cars had them on.

MadMouse101 · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:00

Just stupid people in their own little world.

adolf hamster · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:01

Dip beams at least, although theres plenty with no lights at all.

Other thing grinds my gears is folk who dont pull in to let an ambulance pass, or who then use the opportunity once it has passed to jump a few spots in the queue. You'd be damn sure that wouldn't happen to the police.

Diddums · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:02

The standard of driving in this country is ridiculous.

When I did my driving lessons in Holland, the first thing you learn is how to drive in adverse weather conditions and using what equipment you have available to you. I got tested on it too.

My wife did her drivers here and she said that driving in crap weather didn't even come up :confused:

Hitman_Leon · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:03

adolf hamster said:
You'd be damn sure that wouldn't happen to the police.

Seen it happen a couple of times.

Broady21.pb · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:04

Hitman_Leon said:
Stupid people, no lights on or fog lights when not needed! maybe you should have put this in motors.

My village this morning which has normally quiet country lanes where most of the time it's quite hard for just 2 cars to pass and a nice one in 10 hill was turned into a nightmare this morning. An accident on busy the main road meant everything came through the village from around 7-30am until around 2pm, it was Russian roulette in the fog getting out of the village this morning.

Yeah I get the point about peeps using them when there is no need to, but peeps who drive with no lights on at all like in the above quote should be shot!

kayomani · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:04

First headlights next monsters..

On a more serious note I blame the gov for not making a bigger thing of bad weather driving in the tests etc.

Curio · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:06

kayomani said:
First headlights next monsters..

I think you made a rather massive oversight with this

ShakenNstirred · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:13

It still amazes me there are a lot of modern cars that don't have fog lights that turn off with the ignition, so the fogs aren't on the next time you drive unless you press the button again.
bugs me, days after when cars are still driving around with the fogs on when its not foggy

Hitman_Leon · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:26

ShakenNstirred said:
It still amazes me there are a lot of modern cars that don't have fog lights that turn off with the ignition, so the fogs aren't on the next time you drive unless you press the button again.
bugs me, days after when cars are still driving around with the fogs on when its not foggy

Pretty sure there will be a notification/warning light on the dash they would notice.

MooMoo444 · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:28

Whenever it's foggy I put my fog lights on, because honestly - if you're not gonna use them when its foggy, when will you?

I do see a lot of people chancing it without lights tho. Proper annoying as depending on the angle you don't even see them at a junction or whatever.

Broady21.pb · 3 Nov 2015 at 19:34

Take the lights away from the driver, you get automatic wipers etc these days, so maybe new cars should be fitted with some type of sensor system that turns the lights on/off when they need to be, both normal and fog. it's just a thought.