i30 Owners Club
OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => Motoring => Topic started by: eye30 on August 16, 2018, 19:48:43
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According to the new law to protect cyclists, the driver needs to leave a minimum distance from a cyclist when overtaking or travelling alongside the bike or they could receive a fine. This would be £100 and three points on the licence for being too close to a bike on the road.
So, how close is too close? According to experts, the recommended distance between car and cyclist is 1.5 metres. If you are caught within this distance, then you face the potential of a fine and points on your licence, to the same value as speeding. This has replaced the previous recommendation in the Highway Code which merely said that drivers should leave ‘plenty of room’ when overtaking someone on a bike.
Rule 163 also adds that drivers should leave ‘as much room as when overtaking a car’ when they overtake a motorcyclist, cyclist or even a horse rider. Other reasons that drivers could receive the new penalty will be straying into cycle stop boxes at traffic lights and failing to give cyclists going straight ahead priority at left turns.
https://www.petrolprices.com/news/driving-close-cyclist-leads-fine/
What are the rules/law in other countries?
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straying into cycle stop boxes at traffic lights
That gets my goat, seeing inconsiderate motorists blatantly blocking those boxes.
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What are the rules/law in other countries?
I'm not sure what the fine is, but we've had a law for a year or two about leaving 1.5 metres + when you pass a Cyclist in Tassie.
We don't have those Cycle boxes at stop lights in Tassie. :cool: