On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:36:40 +0100, "Peter Crosland"
wrote:
>"Alex Heney" wrote in message
>news:k6je24h9pufsl7e7ma1bkfrteaka4bi3fv@4ax.com...
>> 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."
Thank you for proving absolutely that he was indeed 100% correct.
Not that it was actually necessary, since the rest of us already knew
the essentials of what you quote.
--
Alex Heney, Global Villager
"Fascinating," said Spock, watching Kirk's lousy acting.
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