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No need for running Eights
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FIFTY YEARS ago police vehicles tended to be black and other road users knew that a vehicle approaching with its headlights on in daylight was bound to be an emergency vehicle in a hurry.
Nowadays anything goes.
Amber roof lights and headlights appear even on motorised street cleaners moving at walking pace on the pavement. Drivers switch everything on at the slightest hint of rain or dusk. Now we have the fatuous nonsense that politicians think we somehow need running lights on all vehicles ('Trucks may get daytime running light' CM3 July). There is a vast difference between seeing and looking.
Those who take road observation seriously tend to survive better than those who merely drift along blissfully unaware of the constant need to be alert to what is happening all around them.
Categorising running lights under the heading of safety is as absurd as describing speed cameras as safety cameras.
Anthony Phillips Salisbury