driving in daytime/heavy rain/fog with no lights

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Crazy scenes today people driving around at lunchtime in thick fog with no lights. Madness. Is it law to have lights on during daylight hours in limited visibility? If not about time there was pen points or something for this madness.

Wicklowandy

Charter?

H3llR4iser

I had a little bit of an event this morning for the same reason. I was going to work, just outside my gate. Light up everything and peer left and right into the thick fog. Nothing on the left, but a couple of cars's headlights on the right. I wait for them to go, look left again - nothing. I pull up and get onto the main road, looking in the central mirror I see a white Mini, no lights on whatsoever, that was no more than 15 meters from my booth. To his/her credit, the Mini driver didn't get on the horn and possibly slowed down having seen me (of course, I was lit like a fcing christmas tree).

Driving a WHITE car in dense fog with no lights on should be worthy of the Darwin award...

Pauvre Con

Ironic given that so many Irish drivers after dark simply turn on all their front lights - including the fogs.

Mint Sauce

My current car is the first that I have owned to include front fogs. Fog lights will only switch in when the dips are on.

Am wondering if this is the case with most cars seeing some of the ones on the road, and how little or much they are lit up.

wexie

irish-stew wrote: »

My current car is the first that I have owned to include front fogs. Fog lights will only switch in when the dips are on.

Am wondering if this is the case with most cars seeing some of the ones on the road, and how little or much they are lit up.

I've never owned a car that could have just the fogs on, having said that : if conditions are such that you need your fogs....you should probably give your dipped headlights some thought as well.

Personally I always drive with my (dipped) lights on and think it should be mandatory and actively enforced like in some countries in Scandinavia (and possibly mainland Europe?)

Pauvre Con

wexie wrote: »

I've never owned a car that could have just the fogs on, having said that : if conditions are such that you need your fogs....you should probably give your dipped headlights some thought as well.

Personally I always drive with my (dipped) lights on and think it should be mandatory and actively enforced like in some countries in Scandinavia (and possibly mainland Europe?)

I generally agree although if the fog is really bad during the daytime driving with dipped lights can actually make things worse. It's better to turn them off and just go with a sidelight/fog combination. That said, that has to be when it's really bad fog.

Mint Sauce

wexie wrote: »

I've never owned a car that could have just the fogs on, having said that : if conditions are such that you need your fogs....you should probably give your dipped headlights some thought as well.

Personally I always drive with my (dipped) lights on and think it should be mandatory and actively enforced like in some countries in Scandinavia (and possibly mainland Europe?)

Well I drive with my dips on most of the time as well, but made sure I familiarised my self all the controls, before my first couple of drive, and only use the fogs when needed.

Maybe its just then that most that drive with their fogs on all the time, just hit every light switch in the car and hope for the best.

Seanieke

No harm in having front dipped headlights and foglights on all day and night once they're correctly aimed.

TestTransmission

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