- Source: United Kingdom traffic laws
Present laws (Great Britain)
Highways Act 1980 (England and Wales)
Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (Scotland)
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
Road Traffic Act 1988
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988
Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, initially introduced on 1 January 1965
The Highway Code (Great Britain edition), not law but a set of information, advice, guides and mandatory rules for road users
History
Highway Act 1835
Locomotive Acts
Locomotives on Highways Act 1896
Motor Car Act 1903
Roads Act 1920
Road Traffic Act 1930
Road Traffic Act 1934
Offences that apply to all vehicles
Causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving
Motor vehicle offences
Causing death by dangerous driving
Dangerous driving
Careless driving/Driving without due care and attention
Motor vehicle document offences: see English criminal law#Forgery, personation and cheating
And see Drink driving (United Kingdom)
Bicycles
Taylor v Goodwin (1879) 4 QBD 228 bicycles are defined as "carriages" and therefore not allowed on pavements; biker convicted for "furious" cycling.
Cycle Tracks Act 1984, allows footpaths to be converted into cycle paths
Highway Act 1835 s 72 (as amended by Local Government Act 1888 s 85(1)) prohibits cycling on footways (pavement beside carriageway). The fixed penalty is £30 under the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 s 51 and Sch 3.
Crank v Brooks [1980] RTR 441, wheeling a bike is not "riding" it, per Waller LJ,In my judgment a person who is walking across a pedestrian crossing pushing a bicycle, having started on the pavement on one side on her feet and not on the bicycle, and going across pushing the bicycle with both feet on the ground so to speak is clearly a 'foot passenger'. If for example she had been using it as a scooter by having one foot on the pedal and pushing herself along, she would not have been a 'foot passenger'. But the fact that she had the bicycle in her hand and was walking does not create any difference from a case where she is walking without a bicycle in her hand.
Licensing Act 1872, an offence to be drunk and in charge of a bike.
Road Traffic Act 1988 s 30, creates an offence for being incapable of having proper control, not necessarily being a bit drunk.A person who, when riding a cycle on a road or other public place, is unfit to ride through drink or drugs (that is to say, is under the influence of drink or a drug to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of the cycle) is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty for dangerous cycling is £2500.
£30 fine for running a red light.
Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, amended 2003, cyclists not included in law making it illegal to talk on a mobile phone.
Northern Ireland
= Present laws
=Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act (Northern Ireland) 1930
Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981
The Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993
The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995
The Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
The Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997
The Road Traffic (New Drivers) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998
The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007
Traffic Signs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997
The Highway Code (Northern Ireland edition)
= Offences that apply to all vehicles
=Causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving
= Motor vehicle offences
=Causing death or grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving
Dangerous driving
See also
Transport in the United Kingdom
Notes
External links
Carlton Reid, 'Cycling and the law' (retrieved 2.10.2009) Bikeforall.net
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