![\"Wysall](\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wysall_lane2.jpg\" "\\"Wysall")
Wysall Lane<\/p><\/div>\n
Someone should perhaps explain that to the one I saw yesterday on Wysall Lane, in Bunny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He’d stopped on this narrow country lane just on the brow of a slight hill, and just ahead of a right bend. About 5 metres behind him was a farm field gateway, which he could have used, and which mkost sensible people do. The road is national speed limit (NSL) and people in cars (especially 4x4s – it’s rural, after all)\u00a0come flying round that corner. The road is barely wide enough for two vehicles unless they move very close to the grass verge (and slow down, which most don’t).<\/p>\n
Quite honestly, he’d chosen a very dangerous place to stop and begin lecturing his pupil. Doing it on test would be an immediate fail.<\/p>\n
\nEXCERPT FROM HIGHWAY CODE <\/p>\n
242<\/strong>
\nYou MUST NOT leave your vehicle or trailer in a dangerous position or where it causes any unnecessary obstruction of the road.<\/strong> <\/p>\n[Laws RTA 1988, sect 22 & CUR reg 103] <\/p>\n
243
\n<\/strong>DO NOT stop or park: <\/p>\n\n
- near a school entrance <\/li>\n
- anywhere you would prevent access for Emergency Services <\/li>\n
- at or near a bus or tram stop or taxi rank <\/li>\n
- on the approach to a level crossing\/tramway crossing <\/li>\n
- opposite or within 10 metres (32 feet) of a junction, except in an authorised parking space <\/li>\n
- near the brow of a hill or hump bridge<\/strong> <\/li>\n
- opposite a traffic island or (if this would cause an obstruction) another parked vehicle <\/li>\n
- where you would force other traffic to enter a tram lane <\/li>\n
- where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users and powered mobility vehicles <\/li>\n
- in front of an entrance to a property <\/li>\n
- on a bend<\/strong> <\/li>\n
- where you would obstruct cyclists\u2019 use of cycle facilities
\nexcept when forced to do so by stationary traffic. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\nAs the adverts often say – anyone<\/em> can become a driving instructor. Unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They might see themselves as being perfect – passing the Part 3 apparently means you become faster than a speeding train, are\u00a0able to stop a bullet with your testicles (or the female equivalent), are\u00a0capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound, and so on. But they aren’t. Someone should perhaps explain that to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}