"zaax" wrote in message
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> Peter Crosland wrote:
>
>> "Alex Heney" wrote in message
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>> > On Sun, 11 May 2008 19:07:53 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>"Gaz" wrote in message
>> > > news:68oppoF2rjt20U1@mid.individual.net...
>> > > > zaax wrote:
>> > > > > Gaz wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > zaax wrote:
>> > > > > > > Alasdair wrote:
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > On Sat, 10 May 2008 17:57:32 +0100, "Cork Soaker"
>> >>>>>>> wrote:
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > > > Not to pull off the road to let a police car with
>> > > > > > > > > > blues and twos through?
>> > > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > > Yes.
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > > Under what legal provision?
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > You should really read the highway code
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > The highway code is not a legal code.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Gaz
>> > > > >
>> > > > > If you don't obay the highway code it will get very legal
>> > > >
>> > > > Aspects of the Highway code may coincide with the law. But it
>> > > > is not a legal document, it is not a source of law, and it
>> > > > might as well say whatever it wants, as it is no defence.
>> > > >
>> > > > Gaz
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > You are so wrong. The Road Traffic Act 1988 says otherwise. Take
>> > > a look at the back cover of the Highway Code and you see the
>> > > details.
>> >
>> > You are the one who is wrong.
>> >
>> > He was 100% correct.
>> > -- Alex Heney, Global Villager
>>
>> I quote verbatim
>>
>> "A failure on the part of a person to observe any provision of The
>> Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to
>> criminal proceedings of any kind, but any such failure may in any
>> proceedings (whether civil or criminal and including proceedings for
>> an offence under the Traffic Acts, the Public Passenger Vehicles Act
>> 1981 or sections 18 to 23 of the Transport Act 1985) be relied upon
>> by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negative
>> any liability which is in question in those proceedings.
>>
>> Road Traffic Act 1988."
>>
>>
>> Peter Crosland
>
> So you break the highway code you have to answer before a judge or
> magistrate.
That is not what it says at all.
Peter Crosland
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