Driving with Hazards On!
Please allow me to vent. A couple of days ago I had to drive in a toad strangler of a thunderstorm in South Florida. Visibility was bad and made it unsafe to drive more than 20 MPH. IT IS ILLEG...
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Gau 8 wrote:2chiefsRus wrote:
Hazard Light Use - State by State
While that may be true in Florida, it is not true in all states. I have been in some western states, where the signs specifically say to use your Flashers when slow going up long grades.
Your own link shows it to be illegal in the vast majority of states. For good reason. In my example it made a bad situation worse.
Suggest you look again- hazard lights are forbidden altogether in only a very few states.
In most other States with any restrictions at all, there are exceptions for "hazardous road conditions", and in most cases that would include a vehicle traveling well below the speed limit on a highway.
My mother never forgot witnessing a horrible wreck on the Banfield Freeway (Oregon) in which a slow moving vehicle was blown off the road by a driver coming up at "normal speed" from behind. The use of hazard lights in that situation might have saved the lives of the two people that were killed going over an embankment.
