There are numerous signs on motorways, junctions etc that prohibit vehicles wider than 2m (for example).
How is this width measured ? Is it across the bodyshell, or across the widest point - perhaps across the door mirrors ?
I've not seen anyone prosecuted for breaking this prohibition - and I've seen numerous vehicles that are wider than 2m in traffic lanes with this restriction.
I do reemember Clarkson whinging when restricted to the inside lane of some motorway in an Aston Martin because it was wider than 2m - but he appears to be the only one to observe this rule. Would anyone with a vehicle wider than 2m care to comment ?
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Have you noticed how many annoying people there are who seem to think that somehow pressing the brake makes a car narrower? Most of them seem to live in Hampstead or Golders Green, they stand on the brake as soon as something comes the other way or slow down from 20mph to 5mph to pass a parked car.
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And St John's Wood BBD... If they only bought vehicles appropriate to their driving ability rather than their incomes they wouldn't be such a nuisance.
By the way, I saw a GWhiz on the pavement in Notting Hill yesterday (Sunday) being recharged. It wasn't really in the way - wide pavement, toy car - but illegal I imagine. 'Suppose a blind single mother with a wooden leg wanted to pass, sir'....
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"Overall width" (Reg 3 Con and Use 84) .........means the distance between the longtitudal planes passing through the extreme lateral projecting points of the vehicle including all parts of the vehicle, any permanent receptacle which is strong enough for repeated use and any fitting on, or attached to the vehicle ,except
Driving mirror
Snow plough fitted to front
Distortion of tyre cause by weight
Custom seals
Lamp or reflector fitted in accordance with Regs
Sideboard let down when vehicle stationary
etc
etc
etc.
dvd
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By the way, I saw a GWhiz on the pavement in Notting Hill yesterday (Sunday) being recharged. It wasn't really in the way - wide pavement, toy car - but illegal I imagine. 'Suppose a blind single mother with a wooden leg wanted to pass, sir'....
Whenever I see these pathetic GWhizzes parked on the street with their recharging cables nonchalantly trailed across the public footpath I am so tempted to 'trip' on them and 'accidentally' unplug them.
I really must grow up ...
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Have you noticed how many annoying people there are who seem to think that somehow pressing the brake makes a car narrower? Most of them seem to live in Hampstead or Golders Green, they stand on the brake as soon as something comes the other way or slow down from 20mph to 5mph to pass a parked car.
you missed out the incredible swerving in and out, when they slalom past the parked car. You'd think they'd notice the chap behind, who doesn't bother, yet his car is wider.
Surely the major problem in Golders Green is the parking?
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DVD - thanks for the explanation.
For practical purposes, I guess the figure given in the vehicle specs for width, excluding mirrors, would be used in deciding if your vehicle was prohibited.
It all appears pointless on motorway lanes, where it's not policed.
The only time it appears to be enforced is when there's a physical restriction - a car park near me has two steel posts in the entrance to deliberately reduce width to about 1.8m
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>> Have you noticed how many annoying people there are who seem >> to think that somehow pressing the brake makes a car narrower?
It's true - a car's effective width increases with speed. You can position a car to within half an inch or less of your garage wall, at almost zero speed, but I bet you wouldn't go through a width restriction with 6" clearance at 100 mph. Altzheimer's Uncertainty Principle.
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