Caught in a yellow boxed junction - can I challenge my fine?

I was recently making my way out of London on a Sunday evening (just after 5pm) and entered a yellow box at a set of traffic lights in good faith, as the traffic seemed to be moving in a way that I could...

Why are some drivers so opposed to being passed by filtering motorcyclists?

I am a motorcyclist who will always take the opportunity of filtering when it presents itself. This is part of the point of a motorcycle. When scything between lanes of traffic, one is in a state of high...

Left in no doubt

The rule I have always used when driving in the left hand lane of a motorway is No 167 of my Highway Code otherwise it would mean braking when nothing is in front of me if lanes to the right of me slow...

The drain strain

Whilst I can see that electric vehicles may have a role to play in displacing pollution from cities like London to places like Didcot and Ferrybridge, I think we need to question whether or not these vehicles...

The In-Betweeners

Further to the email regarding undertaking on the motorway, I personally have no problem with it. I do have a problem with the suicidal form of it I witnessed this week. I'm referring to motorcyclists...

Coded message

Recent interest in the Highway Code raises the question of the clauses that begin with the words DO NOT, which are only advisory, and can be ignored without penalty, especially parking situations. One...

Q cars

I understand that some classic/vintage car drivers when proceeding at about 40mph on an unrestricted single carriageway with a queue of traffic behind them have been stopped by the police and either cautioned...

Should flashing headlights as a signal be added to the Highway Code?

We have had previous correspondence about headlight flashing. I see that in yesterday’s Telegraph you at last seem to be accepting that flashed headlights indicate ‘come on’ or ‘I am giving way’, whatever...

Could you start a special advice column about how to drive safely on motorways?

A couple of recent letters in your column worryingly reveal how unaware some fellow drivers are of how to drive more safely on motorways. The most common failures can all be summarised, in my view, by...

The Highway Code says that motorists joining a motorway from a slip road are bound to give way - do you agree?

I have just read your response to a reader concerning how to join a motorway. The reader wrote that drivers joining the motorway have no right of way but your reply says otherwise. You wrote: “The priority...