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Scenario. 2 lanes at traffic lights, one is marked for straight ahead, the other is for left turn. There is no filter light , just one set of traffic lights. If a motorist uses the right hand lane but goes straight on, what offence could he be charged with

kelfoan Thurs 05/06/08 18:59

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GEEMAC
Thurs 05/06/08
19:04

If he is in the right hand lane and goes straight on I don't see that any offence has been commited

kelfoan
Thurs 05/06/08
19:09

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Even if there is an arrow for a right turn only in the right hand lane?

pink-kittens
Thurs 05/06/08
19:09

Can't see one either
Now if you had said the driver was in the left lane and went straight on ..........

pink-kittens
Thurs 05/06/08
19:10

You didn't day anything about a right hand arrow to turn right

Ethel
Thurs 05/06/08
19:12

However, if he were in the left hand lane and went straight on, he would have committed the offence of 'Failing to conform to a traffic sign' under the Road Traffic Act 1988

kelfoan
Thurs 05/06/08
19:14

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Sorry.. having a bad day.. What I meant to say was outside lane had an arrow for RIGHT turn (not left as my original posting)

Toureman
Thurs 05/06/08
19:45

To have commited an offence the right turn would have had to have a mandatory sign saying right turn only.

Panic Button
Thurs 05/06/08
20:26

I think the police have an offence in their armoury of something like 'misuse of a lane to gain advantage over other road users'

Whether they would use it in a case like this I don't know.

I think it is used mostly to deal with the cheats who pull off the busy motorway onto a sliproad to rejoin further up the queue.

dachse
Tue 10/06/08
22:53

Surely this falls into the "driving without due care and attention" category.

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