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Turn-off headlights on streetlit roads to improve road safety

Keith Peat, Drivers Union, Sutton-on-Sea, Lincs LN12
21 August 2015
 

In his letter, Morten Welde was talking about daytime running lights and not ‘headlights’ as your heading implied (Letters LTT 07 Aug). 

While considering headlight use, I have long argued that we should not be using them in well-lit built-up areas at night at all. Anyone who has commuted in a large city by motorbike will confirm how dangerous these bright lights are at night, and especially in the wet. So why do most drivers use them?

The basic characteristic of good drivers...

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