![]() “My concern is there will be a situation where car owners are more likely to be prosecuted now than they were before,” he told us. When the changes were announced, Hojol Uddin, a motoring lawyer at JMW Solicitors, said the new rules may give some cyclists the confidence to take more risks on the road. “This is a serious safety risk which could actually see the updated code causing more conflict on our roads rather than less.”Īs of 29 January, pedestrians have new priority when crossing road junctions, while cyclists have priority when passing a turning car, under a new hierarchy of road users. ![]() “An alarming number of motorists are driving on Britain’s roads without awareness of key changes which fundamentally shift the dynamics of shared use,” said IAM RoadSmart policy director Neil Greig. IAM’s survey bears this out, with just over half the surveyed sample disagreeing with the question ’Do you think the Government has done a good job of communicating changes to the Highway Code?’ ![]() Auto Express raised concerns before the changes were implemented that communication of the changes seemed woefully inadequate.
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