Top 10 Common Driving Law Myths

The littering one reminds me of an incident years ago. A friends son parked his pick up in a bus stop (with thick yellow line) and came out to find a parking ticket on his windscreen. He ripped it off and threw it on the ground. As he did this a street warden was walking past who promptly handed him a fine for littering. I thought this was hilarious as he was one of those people that thought he was above the law. I

#4 - Littering. This also includes throwing cigarette butts out the window, which appears to be something smokers seem to ignore/not realise.

Myth #1 - People assume if you're hit from behind the other person is "automatically" deamed at fault. Reality is if a person genuinely drives dangerously and creates that situation, they can and will get prosecuted

Something my dad said to me years ago. If you have a drink, leave the car, even if you have to leave it at the pub, resturant etc. Get a taxi. It'll cost less than £20 (then). Look at it this way, if you get caught (or worse) and thrown in a police cell overnight but then someone came to your cell and said "give me £20 and ill make all this go away", you'd give them £40...

I believe that if every driver watched one of your videos a month, our roads would be safer. Keep it up, it chills me out at least.

I really like this style of video, because it's something you can listen to while cooking or cleaning etc, i.e. you don't need to be actively watching the screen. Would love to see more like this! :)

8:07 Further on this point: There are actually 2 main drink drive offences. You can either be done for driving whilst over the prescribed limit (as would be tested by a breathalyser) or you can be done for driving whilst unfit through drink. If the police decide that alcohol is affecting your ability to drive, even if you're well below the limit, you can still be lifted.

4:59 drifting between lanes before switching lanes without signalling. Brilliant driving mate

I like rewatching these older videos, keeps me on top of the highway code without having to read, plus All the effort Ashley puts into these videos deserves the extra watch time. Thanks ash! I want to add, I have a neighbour they have a pickup that's always dirty and you cannot read their number plate, so I wrote '£1000 Fine' in the dirt with an arrow pointing to their numberplate. It's still there 3 weeks later and the numberplate is still unreadable. I guess they never look at the back of their pick up, but I like to think it sends a message to other road users to check thier own boot lid 😁

The question of picking up a stranger to teach a lesson on the way home sounds likely to get you in trouble in court to me. I suspect there would be a question about which activity is the primary reason for the charge. Does the charge match other lessons you give? Was the lesson arranged in the same way as other lessons you give? Is the passenger going to receive any award or test on the knowledge imparted? Is the passenger sober enough to actually benefit from the lesson? You might be able to argue it, but I think the fact that it doesn't feel clear-cut is an indicator that it's probably not a good idea.

The costs involved in litter picking on motorways/50mph+ roads etc are astronomical, i work for a council down south that require a minimum Of 1 IPV (impact protection vehicle, usually big trucks with a crash cushion that can be lowered at the rear) which is usually crewed by 2-3 workers, and then 3 smaller transit style vans with early lane closure warnings so thats another 3 workers to drive those vans, this is before the workers/vehicle that are actually picking up the litter. so to summarise for 1 day of litter picking the costs include around 10x daily wages, 4 smaller vehicles and 1 IPV (daily hire cost is around £1k for the IPV alone) all because you couldn't be bothered to take your rubbish home. don't get me started on the disgusting state of Mcdonald car parks WHICH HAVE BINS EVERYWHERE!!

#4 - littering does my head in. McD’s wrappers thrown out of car windows being the classic we must have all seen. #10 - even though I know it does cover me, I still went and checked my insurance for driving other cars 😆 Thx Ashley 👍🏻

Hi Ashley, about “driving anybody else’s car” even with fully comp insurance. Even if….. you do have it worded on your policy, the other car MUST be insured by somebody else. This stops the classic “buy and insure a mini, then drive an uninsured Porsche 3rd party on your comp policy” Absolutely not! Again, check your policy wording. This is a common misconception, and catches people out when going to collect a new second hand car that has had its original owner’s insurance cancelled

Great vid! I've been a driver well over a decade and with no issues but your vids helps to continually improve, keep it up mate, amazing work!

@2:50 i'm glad that you mentioned about medical exemptions. For years before my dad died he had a seatbelt mmedical exemption for his colostomy bag, with him having crohn's and and having to wear a bag sometimes a seatbelt was too painful on his stoma. Although when he could he'd always wear one.

On number 6 I'm going to say no based on the fact that taxi's/hire vehicles operate under a different insurance policy?If you crash, surely there would be questions on why you're doing a driving lesson on New years at 1 in the morning with a drunk student. Also could a court of law state the drunk passenger still has control over the vehicle based on whether or not your driving school car has dual controls? I'd be interested to see, on paper it does sound like a loophole but in a court of law my personal guess is it wouldn't stand. Guess we'll see on new years aha

Illegal number plates are a pet hate on mine.

I feel naked if I don't have my seatbelt on when I'm in my car. I'm also alive today because of the seatbelt.

Glad you cleared some of things matters up as the ambiance amongst some drivers is soo bloody minded!

Another thing about point 10, if you do have DOC it is often Third Party cover only. You wouldn’t want to find this out after wrapping someone’s new Ferrari round a lamppost.