Well, I've just written to my local paper asking why plod is doing nothing about the fog light brigade AND the blue light brigade.
3 times now I have pulled aside to let a police car overtake - only to see it's an old motor showing lots of blue lights at the front. When you're trying to concentrate on what's in front & you keep glimpsing blue lights in your mirror, you assume it's plod on a mission.
This latest one was an old astra with flashing LED panels behind the radiator grille - so looking exactly like an unmarked car (at night you only see the lights).
It's not just this though, some drivers are replacing their sidelights with blue LEDs so the whole light is blue.
Road vehicle lighting regs state it's illegal to display a blue beacon (working or not) or anything that resembles a blue beacon.
Front fogs. Driving out of town every morning this week, going past the usual loooooong queues of cars, I reckoned every 4th car had fogs lit (some just fogs, some had fogs AND dipped) - and yet every morning the weather was clear - and also despite the fact that these cars were mostly stationary.
I've suggested our local force sends the plastic plods out with digital cameras and a few instant fine pads.
Take a pic of the car & hand the driver an instant £30 fine, number of cars I see, that's got to be one huge moneyspinner.
Never know, might also catch a few tax & insurance dodgers as well.
Also hate the wrong lane idiots - they purposely get into the wrong lane to jump queues then force their way in - not if I'm at the head of the queue they don't.
Also hate those jumping around lanes in a vain attempt to beat the queue. had one moron in a transit, forcing his way in front of cars - over two miles, he ended up just two cars ahead of me from starting out beside me!
