HEADLIGHTS AT NIGHT

Perry Russell of Chessington sent Mac the item reproduced here from a 1995 Highway Code about lighting which is different to what Mac was told (see February 1998 Magazine), and he has passed it on for publication.

Rules and regulations apart, what do other A7 users feel about lights and night driving. Despite nose-diving ammeters do you use headlights at night in built up areas or do you drive on sidelights?

This seems like a good time for the electrical boffins to let us into the secrets of good lighting whilst maintaining as much originality as possible. Not asking much is itl?

Vehicle Lights

131. You MUST:

· make sure all your lights are clean, that they work and that your headlights are properly adjusted - badly adjusted headlights can dazzle other road users and may cause accidents;

· use sidelights between sunset and sunrise;

· use headlights at night (between half an hour alter sunset and halt an hour before sunrisel on all roads without street lighting and on roads where the street lights are more than (85 metres (600 It) apart or are not lit;

· use headlights or front tog lights en visibility is seriously reduced, generally en you cannot see for more than 100 metres 1328 flI.

132. You should also:

· use headlights at night on lit motorways and reads with a speed limit in excess of 50 mph;

· use dipped headlights at night in built-up areas unless the road is well lit;

· cut down glere. If your vehicle has di ip, uve it instead of dipped headlights in dull dayt;me weather and at night in built-up areas with good street lighting;

· dip your headlights when meeting vehicles or other road ssers and before you dazzle the driver of a vehicle you are following;

· slow down or stop it you are dazzled by oncoming headlights.

Rc printed from the 1995 Highway Code

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