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Car type: '28 GE Cup. '28 AD Chummy '30 RL Saloon. '34 RP Saloon. Too Many toys!
As someone who regularly travels main roads with vehicles far slower than a steamer I think I can give some advice re what roads to use.
Personally I like ques. If I have a que behind me, the chances of getting rear ended are zero. To minimise ques keep left as much as you can, and pull in fairly often.
Biggest risk on a single carriageway road is being overtaken by a halfwit, who for whatever reason cut you up, the long and short of it is you have to lift off etc to let them in. Basically you have to just suck it up.
Chances of getting rear ended is much more on a dual, or multilane. 95% the folks I know of, who have been rear ended in a slow/slower moving vehicle were rear ended on a dual.
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Location: Garden of England
Car type: ARQ Ruby July 1936
Not that I want to drive on them, but is it illegal to run a slow moving vehicle, Austin 7’s, on a dual carriageway with hazard lights on??
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Denis - from the Highway Code:
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Hazard warning lights. These may be used when your vehicle is stationary, to warn that it is temporarily obstructing traffic. Never use them as an excuse for dangerous or illegal parking. You MUST NOT use hazard warning lights while driving or being towed unless you are on a motorway or unrestricted dual carriageway and you need to warn drivers behind you of a hazard or obstruction ahead. Only use them for long enough to ensure that your warning has been observed.
Law RVLR reg 27
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Location: Deepest Frogland 30960
Car type: 1933 RP Standard Saloon
There is nothing to stop you tying a reflective/flourescent red warning triangle to your spare wheel, with or without a flashing red cycle light as a back up. Most coppers these days haven't got a clue as to what you can do and what you can't.
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Just intrigued as I have followed lorries or farm vehicles many times with hazard warning lights going ten to the dozen??
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18-10-2021, 07:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-10-2021, 07:42 PM by Tony Betts.)
you are right there reckers.
ive had the rossers follow me a few times, perhaps wondering if i should have two rear lights? or even if my numberplate is legal on the side of the body tail? thay havent tried stopping me yet though.
our village has more rossers than anywere else, due to it being close to there motorway headquarters.
one stopped to talk, wilst i was walking the dog. we got onto the subject of the old car, and what it was. his words were he would never dream of stopping an early car. because the owner would know more about it than he did. then he joked if he stopped it, and it wouldnt start again. he then has more paperwork, and traffic duty than he would have wanted.
tony
on the subject of the a46 above leicester.
it is a beautiful road, although fast. there are very rearly accedents on it. (he says having to travel up and down it this coming sunday and monday). fingers crossed.
some dual carrage ways seem more prone to accedends than others.
although i think driving down from were you are going the other way round leicester, as you suggested. isnt a bad road. drive down to market harborough, then naseby. if you can pick you way through daventry and come out at shipston-on-stour. the last 75 miles will be very back road, and come out on the foss just above morton-in-marsh.
tony
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I see all sorts of vehicles from tractors to mobile cranes with a flashing yellow beacon on the top and some doing the legal maximum of 56 mph.
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Tony
Maybe you could find a garden centre catalogue and photocopy compose a cover to say "what has taken the danger from dangerous hills? HEDGES for the Austin Seven owner."
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Location: Sherwood Forest
Car type: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Flashing beacons are not the same as hazard warning lights.
Flashing beacons should be used by vehicles with a maximum speed of 25mph when used on roads with a speed limit of 50mph or more. They should also be used by vehicles involved in breakdowns and road clearance, abnormal-load escort vehicles, refuse vehicles and road cleansing and maintenance vehicles. I don't think a Seven would qualify for any of these classifications! The beacon(s) must be positioned at a minimum of 1.2 metres from the ground and be visible from all directions, so it would have to be located on the roof of a Seven anyway!
