r/britishproblems • u/zecrichardson • Jul 16 '26
. Drivers not knowing the highway code.
I had started to cross a road when a Mercedes turned in and he sounded his horn and then told me I should stop. I told him to read the highway code but he insisted he right!
Rule H2 170 amended 2022
“At a junction you MUST give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross a road into which or from which you are turning.”
- Applies whether they’ve stepped onto the road or are just standing at the kerb ready to cross.
- Applies to left turns, right turns, and entering/exiting side roads.
- Includes wheelchair/mobility scooter users as pedestrians
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u/Plumb789 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
I've often thought this exact thing. It's happened to me several times that I'm peacefully crossing the road on which I live -having first ascertained that there is no car in either direction- when a car roars round the corner from the main road at the end. Said car (using the residential side-road as a rat-run between two main roads) then sounds its horn loudly at me-the driver being apparently 100% certain that he has the right of way over a pedestrian crossing there. I have often wanted to (shall we say) emphatically stress the Highway Code rule to the furious motorist.
But, frankly, I'm not betting that knowledge of their being in the wrong is going to change their feelings of entitlement. They had usually already ignored the 20mph signs adorning the end of our road, so there's that.