New Highway Code Rules

Micky I think you will find that the whole of the Code is guidance or rules.  Some is guidance giving perceived common sense and some guidance towards statutes (laws) that are considered to be applicable to the guidance given.  HMG explains it thus:

Many of the rules in the Code are legal requirements, and if you disobey these rules you are committing a criminal offence. You may be fined, given penalty points on your licence or be disqualified from driving. In the most serious cases you may be sent to prison. Such rules are identified by the use of the words ‘MUST/MUST NOT’. In addition, the rule includes an abbreviated reference to the legislation which creates the offence. 

Although failure to comply with the other rules of the Code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, The Highway Code may be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts to establish liability. This includes rules which use advisory wording such as ‘should/should not’ or ‘do/do not’.  

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Prudence dictates that you don't step in front of a moving vehicle and as for coming up the inside of a vehicle that has already indicated that it is turning left.... One way of addressing over-population I suppose.

The NEW highway code does not tell people to walk out in front of vehicles, It states at JUNCTIONS if a pedestrian is waiting to cross,  or is crossing the car should stop, and give way 
Even under the older highway codes, Pedestrians had right of way at junctions, if crossing. 
The big difference is the hierarchy that been applied 

 

Apparently Assistance Dogs and Guide dogs are trained to wait at kerbs until NO cars are present. The dogs won't cross until cars drive on past. The new rule means drivers will stop and try to wave pedestrians across. But they won't cross the road and you will only hold them and yourself up.

Looks like to stay legal one must now drive on and come back later.

Just seen this video, it's in the news as well and wondered what people's view are.

£417 Fine and 5 Points for Careless Driving

As the car crossed the white centre line I'm with the cyclists - no doubt at all.

Absolutely. It’s as if he swerved towards the cyclists and made no attempt to avoid them. Me, I would have been braking and near clipping the hedge.

Yes the car was over the white line , but the cyclist to me seemed to go passed the parked car with more room than was possibly needed, but there is only a small section of video and none from the driving cars perspective, a harsh fine when you see what other drivers get away with .

I think cyclists usually give parked cars a wide berth in case a door is opened without warning. I suspect the oncoming car was travelling at such a rate that the cyclist probably had very little chance to change course and in any case would not have expected the car to cross the line.

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