20-07-2023, 09:18 AM
Here's the photo again. This evolved after an incident on the A6 in Stockport stopped at a Pelican crossing at night with the pedestrian in front of me when she froze, one look in my mirror revealed an HGV bearing down on us. It came to rest alongside me nose to nose with the car facing me with no damage apart from the HGV driver's ego. My car had extra rear lights including stop and indicators mounted by the rear number plate and my foot was on the brake otherwise I'd have rolled into the pedestrian. This made me realize that Seven rear lights are woefully low at 12" above the road and HGV driver's eyes are 12' above the road, something had to be done. In that situation I had no where to go and I checked afterwards all my lights worked. I'd had a few incidents of minor rear end bumps which broke the additional rear light lens when stopped the light board put an end to these bumps. Yes it doesn't win prizes for looks but as Tony says it can be removed in seconds leaving my car as built.