Driving in Fog

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The Viking

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I'm always gob smacked by how many people don't turn on their headlights when it's foggy. Not just their fog lights but no lights at all!!!

This morning was a pea-souper round these parts (East MiRAB) and in my half hour drive to work I counted 31 cars without their lights on.

It was daylight but there must have been 20m visibility at best.

Like the grumpy, self righteous old git I am I made sure I flashed every single one of them to make myself feel better. Got a few surpised looks, noticed a few in my rear mirror put their lights on (maybe I saved a life or 2 - who knows).
I even got the middle finger from one little baldy Phil Mitchell lookalike & his fellow builder mates in a white van I seem to remeraber


I also made a mental note of race, gender (inc hair colour), age, car type and the regularity of the offence the closer I got to the Mansfield area.
However I won't disclose these stats so as not to bring the wrath of the GC racism, sexism, ageism, Mansfieldism police upon myself.

My message is - SWITCH YOUR BLOODY LIGHTS ON and if you have done already FLASH THE BUGGERS THAT HAVEN'T!!
 
And these are probably the same people driving around with their front fog lights on in fine weather burning peoples retinas out of peoples eye sockets.
 
Quite thick fog this morning here too.

Turning right out of a junction was a bit of nightmare, as when i thought it was clear, a silver/grey without lights appeared from nowhere!!

Fog lights don't just assist with your visibility, but help other road users spot you. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
 
Yep, thats probably just as bad as not switching on your lights.. a slight hint of fog, visibility isn't affected much atall yet on come the all fog lights.

The Highway code states:

You MUST NOT use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced (Below 100 metres) as they dazzle other road users and can obscure your brake lights.
 
Yup, I notice all the time, especially around this time of year.

I think part of the problem stems from modern cars where dasrabroadoarRAB are illuminated from the moment you turn on the ignition. In the old days, the dash lights wouldn't come on until you had actually turned on your headlights, meaning on darker morning you would be more inclined to switch on your lights, rather than think you have them on because the dash is illuminated
 
Very foggy here this morning. My car has no front fog lights so if I was one of the offending cars this morning I apologise!!
 
Im glad i dont drive the same roaRAB as you, considering you were more worried about what everyone was doing rather than concentrating on the road, in what you say was, a 'pea-souper'.

Plus the fact you even managed to count them all, AND describe their appearance, race sex etc etc.
 
It's not uncommon for the majority of traffic to go in one direction, whilst moving along at a snails pace it's not difficult to observe cars coming the other way.

So I wouldn't jump to the conclusion he was driving without due care and attention.
 
who subscribes to the theory that front fogs dazzle you ? , I know I don't , rear fogs however annoy the living daylights out of me , and I know cars can be made to switch off the fogs when you turn the lights off , so why dont they do this in all new cars ...
 
believe it or not it was quite easy, I'm often aware of what's going on either side and behind me when I'm driving... even in fog.
Counting whilst driving is also dead easy - you should try it - when a car goes past you without lights on you shout ONE! then when it happens again you shout TWO! and so on. It gets a bit more difficult once you get past 10 because you run out of fingers.. Let us know how you get on
 
Amazing.

So you admit to driving in dense fog 'counting cars' when there are plenty of reasons why you should be concentrating on the road.

And you still need to count with your fingers?

Sheesh......
 
if a collision were to occur by someone pulling out in front of or turning into the path of a vehicle with no lights, in dense fog, the vehicle with no lights would be to blame. Proving such would be a different matter though.
 
These cars driving without their lights on are also driving along that very same road that the OP could still be paying attention to.. Do you have no peripheral vision or do you just have very poor eyesight generally that requires you to stare at the rear bumper of the car in front? If so I suggest you visit your opticians for another eye test... or your doctor to see if you are fit to drive on the public highways.
 
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