The Sunday Times asked people to suggest new road laws. The three laws that came top were

1. allowing left turns at red lights;
2. confining heavy lorries to the inside lane on motorways; and
3. having an insurance disc displayed next to the tax disc, as French and Irish drivers are required to do, as part of a strategy to counter the rise in accidents involving uninsured drivers.

Gorse Fox is impressed. All immensely sensible.

Another that caught his eye, also receives his total backing:

But the last word should go to Claire Aindow from Bolton, Lancashire: “I respectfully suggest the abolition of all road traffic laws, to be replaced by a single offence: driving like a berk. For example, driving at 90mph down an empty motorway at 10pm with good road conditions: fine. Driving at 90mph in the fog at 6pm on the M62: driving like a berk. Parking neatly, even if your large Jaguar is slightly outside the bay: fine. Causing hold-ups in a multi-storey by not going to the top straight away (where there is always space): driving like a berk. Should the legislators wish to discuss this further, I am at their disposal.”

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