‘Wrong edition’ of Highway Code?
MY daughter who is learning to drive asked me to get her a copy of the Highway Code the next time I was in Newcastle.
She was very excited when I gave it to her, and wanting to pass her test as soon as possible she started to read it immediately.
But after about ten minutes of scanning through it she started to complain that I had bought the wrong edition, saying that the book I had given her said that cars should not park on double yellow lines, park on pavements, double park, park in bays for the disabled or park on bends in the road.
She asked me to take it back and get her the Ashington edition as this kind of parking was obviously allowed here, as no one is ever prosecuted.
IAN FORSTER
Ashington
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derfledermause
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 09:58 AMHow right you are, Ashington, the top of Alexander road, cars parked with all four wheels on the pavement, blocking the view of those vehicles coming out of Alexander road onto Woodhorn road. The vehicles parked at the junction of Hawthorn road and third avenue, causing grid lock, more than a dozen times a day. That part of Milburn road from seventh avenue down to the white elephant roundabout, is now one way traffic due to cars parked on both sides of the road. The most frightening thing is the number of motorists who will run a red light is increasing exponentialy.
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