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Should flashing headlights as a signal be added to the Highway Code?
We have had previous correspondence about headlight flashing. I see that in yesterday’s Telegraph you at last seem to be accepting that flashed headlights indicate ‘come on’ or ‘I am giving way’, whatever you may think about the rights or wrongs of this. You state 'often’. I would ‘virtually invariably’. It would be sensible for this to be included in the Highway Code as a recognised signal.
Asked on 11 July 2011 by GH, Berkhamsted
Answered by
Honest John
What you write is logical, but the advice of Peter Rodger, chief examiner of the IAM, is that it can be meant and interpreted differently and that's more than a bit of a problem. So unless it's obvious from something else, such as the flashing vehicle slowing, better to interpret a flash as a warning and use other means to signal drivers out. For instance on the motorway, as on a track day, a left indicator can signal another driver to pass you.
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