IN PARLIAMENT
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No lights code
Some MPs are still unhappy about the use of flashing headlights—despite the fact that this week they generally accepted the new Highway Code which says that this signal just indicates that a vehicle is there.
Mr. Bob Brown, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, admitted that the flashing rule might disappoint some: interested organizations had been asked for their advice, partly because there had been discussions about the possible advantages of an approved lamp signalling code. Discussion was continuing, and different views were passionately held, but the general feeling was against a special code.
Opposition spokesman Mr. David Webster thought the headlamp flashing rule in the Code was right; the heavy lorry drivers had a wonderfully recherché information-passing system which was all right—so long as it was clear that the responsibility for any actions lay with the driver receiving the information,
Commenting that flashing beacons on top of vehicles were frequently abused, Mr. Webster said drivers of breakdown vehicles often did not know that these were permitted only when at the scene of an accident.