What are the rules about using headlight in town at night?
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The best way to figure out when to use your headlights is:
when other cars have their headlights on at dusk
when the street lights come on at dusk
when you start your car and it is dusk or dark
fog lights are not headlights
Have them on.Low-Beam, Unless Need High-Beams Then If Cars 500 Feet From U Turn On Low-Beams.Simple
WTF?? The rules are when it is dark you have your headlights on and you have to turn off bright lights when an approaching car gets 500 feet or less in front of you
Where are you living, some backwoods Alabama compound where the nearest town is 200 miles away, and consists of 4 rundown shanties with a street light suspended from fishing wire? Get a clue, hillbilly.
dipped headlights (ie not high beam) should be used when the street lights come on. high beam only when there are no street lights and no oncoming traffic.
If its lighting up time they must be on
okay. on 30 min. before dark. on when it it raining or foggy. on dim thru town unless need brights to see, if so dim them as soon as you see another cars headlights.
Refer to Highway Code, you know the book that EVERY driver reads a least once.
Section 93. YOU MUST use headlights at night EXCEPT on restricted road(where street lights are no more than 185 metres apart)
Use head lights when visibility is SERIOUSLY reduced (fog/heavy rain)when you cannot see more than 100 metres.
Normally the rule for headlights being on is 30 mins befoer dusk and 30 minutes after dawn. Then during low visibility situations such as rain, snow, heavily overcast.
Hope this helps.
If in the town at night you can only use dipped headlights.
You are not aloud coloured headlights as this is illegal, when you leave the town you can return to fuul beam
Dipped headlights, and NO fog lights, unless foggy? This is a u.k answer.
Buy a beemer and it sorts out the light debate automatically.
turn them off and close your eyes, when it's dark no-one can see you and you can't see them, so you can't hit what you can't see you see. easy
When I took my test back in 1900 and frozen stiff, You were allowed to drive on side lights. But the law changed while I was serving abroad, and now you must have dipped headlights on.
In Clacton we have boy racers round the centre of town, they do what they like the police say that at least they know where they are, so nothing gets done. Don't get me wrong the police are great. But there is not enough of them so they use community police persons, and specials. Penalties are not hard enough for wrong doers. A footnote when I was 12 I got a 5 shilling fine for not having a light on my pushbike
You must use side lights according to law. but for your own safety I would use dipped headlights. I am an advanced driver and I was told if it is worth turning on your lights then always turn them full on - (dipped - not full beam).
Always use dipped headlight. Put them on according to visibility and not according to the mythical lighting up time. Many cars become invisible in dusk conditions to people that do not have perfect eyesight. You may be able to see perfectly but assume that all other drivers and pedestrians can't. Dipped headlight on.
Definitely do not drive on side lights ever.
I drive with my headlights on at all times so other drivers can see me, even if it's high noon. Ever almost miss seeing a car because it was dark colored and hidden in a shadow? Ever wonder why many cars now have daytime running lights? Of course then people forget to turn on the rest of their lights at night or in bad weather, and ride w/out tail lights. Anyway, the safest thing to do is have them on while rolling. Just don't be a dolt and forget to turn them off before you leave your car. And as far as high beams, don't be ignorant about that either.but that's a different subject I'll wail on someone about on Y.A. later.
The rules are quite simple, if it is dark then you must use dipped headlights, unless you are on a road with a speed limit of 30 mph or less.
read the highway code
use low beam
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