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Petition update, 09 February 2007

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Plans by the European Union to make the use of car headlights in daytime mandatory are being welcomed by road safety lobby groups and by some road safety officers. However, these do gooders and practitioners seem to have forgotten the disbenefit that the introduction of so called Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) will have on the safety of motorcycle and scooter users.

At present the headlights of motorcycles and scooters, used in daylight, increase the chance of them being seen. However, against a background of glaring light streams this visibility advantage will be lost, as motorcycles and scooters disappear in a sea of other vehicles lights, and thus the risk to riders from careless motorists will increase.

Far from being a road safety improvement this proposed legislation will only result in an increase in death and serious injury to the ever increasing number of motorcyclists and scooter riders we see on our roads.

Current signatories

Richard Olliffe, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• STEPHEN ANDREWS
• dave morton
• Heather Ward
• Karl Chinnappa
• Archi Hipkins
• Matt Davies
• Clare Hoffmann
• Stephen Townsend
• Mark Wilkins
• Peter Harley
• Ian Cameron
• David Lee
• George Best
• George Shelton
• David John York
• Peter Denyer
• D.Moorfield
• Karen Lawrinson
• Philip Foster
• alan thomson
• Mark O'Connor
• Colin Farrell
• Patrick Evans
• M Hardy
• Chris Sparkes
• Vincent Anthony Heath
• Martin Dann
• Simon Bennett
• Colin McKenzie
• Marc Brett
• Tom Neal
• Simon Brooke
• p Birtchnell
• Paul Williams
• Jon Sharkey
• CHRIS JENKINS
• Andy Garvie
• Bill Lee
• David Dent
• Jamie Gardiner
• Jonathan Schneider
• Scot Jenkins
• Michael Dent
• Stephen Down
• Thomas W. Lewis
• Geoff Benn
• A H Downey
• David Sansom
• Philip Ashworth
• Amanda Hobson
• Allan Dack
• Thomas Bray
• Annemieke ten Bokum
• Robert Wood
• Graham Brooks
• Duplicate Petition
• Robert McKirdy
• J BOWLES
• Simon Hobson
• M Boon
• Darren Capper
• Clive Duncan
• Dominic Adam Tyler
• Mick Hayes
• Nigel Whitmore
• christopher shaw
• R.W.WARNER
• Alan Forsythe
• Federica Carr
• Ed Brandley
• Olwyn Shilling
• Dave Shilling
• Bob Kaven
• Rodney Alan Bint
• Paul Cannings
• Thorsten Brabetz
• Barry Parkinson
• Andrew Tavener
• Gordon Stewart
• Adrian Carey
• Steve Glover
• louise Evans
• Michael Davies
• Mark Munro
• Mark Raine
• Dr. Ian B. Duncan
• Duncan Davies
• Mark Davidson
• Timothy Hurford
• T Forrester
• Stefan Angheluta
• Greg Aspland
• leonard
• kevin moore
• Stephen Blyth
• Richard Eldridge
• Dr Jim Turner
• Rob Ripley
• Iain Bogie
• Dr Sumeet Bellara
• Roy Milnes
• Alan Henry Jenner
• James Gough
• steve steadman
• W A Richmond
• Brian Hazlehurst
• Craig Horner
• andrew cockerill
• Mike Gould
• mark willaims
• Andrew Colbourne
• David Richardson
• Alistair Gunn
• Kenith Kingsbury
• Ann Brooks
• David Raymonde
• sjf@lorienwood.co.uk
• Anthony M Sperry
• geoffrey haylock
• Paul Bricknell
• Reuben Cook
• Daniel Sterven Rodd
• Gregory R Hickman
• R.J Dunkley
• S.P. Glennie-Smith
• George Gardiner
• Alan Ashmore
• j.french
• peter gagen
• Robin Dawes
• Samantha Lewis
• Mark Wilkins
• Bernard McGraghan
• Simon Wilkinson-Blake
• Stephen Trant
• Paul Barton
• John McGraghan
• Roger Edward Higgins
• Grant Addison
• Ian Hutchinson
• John Kingsley
• john webb
• caroline bennett
• Mr. andrew hutchings
• Steve Kitson
• Tony Hunt
• Steven Moxham
• maz
• B. J. Hartman
• Mr K Cooper
• Gaynor Hives
• Chris Potter
• Peter Grace
• Caroline King-Cherne
• Nigel Andrews
• Paul Crerand
• Roy Farrell
• peter cameron
• Stephen Lockwood
• Mandy Durell
• Robin Arnold
• Jim Readman
• Torin Spence
• Cheryl Dennison
• Iain Wooloff
• Michael Fowen
• alex crawford
• Peter Frost
• Mark Rose
• Dave Graham
• Rob Spiller
• Angharad Truelove
• Paul Waymont
• Nigel Clive FRISWELL
• Anne Kasica
• anita edmunds
• Neil.Whitehead
• Christopher Lyddon
• Randal Kennerley
• RoderickHarrison
• christopher david wildman
• stephen moran
• merle andrews
• laurence andrews
• Gary Punter
• Andrew Timms
• Martin Ziacek
• John Tipping
• david fidgett
• Colin Watney
• russ freeman
• Kenneth Robson
• Rona Fidgeon
• Paul Batchelor
• chris johns
• Harry A Dunn
• Jeff Stanton
• Gary Johnstone
• Igor Griffiths
• Colin Jubb
• Michael Watson
• kevin halpin
• Simon D. Michalak
• Peter Byrne
• Peter Byrne
• Kevin Scott
• Martin Harvey
• Martin Harvey
• Alex Laing
• colin grover
• mark Smith
• Carol Marsh
• David Sharpe
• Joseph Wilson
• Richard Foxley
• YVONNE CLAPHAM
• Christian Cox
• Roger Wilde
• tina cross
• Timothy Ireland
• garry timms
• john lambert
• David Williams
• John Booth
• Dennis Moir
• Ben Leach
• Clive Warren
• Matt Bossons
• Andrew Fewlass
• Nick Powell
• Anthony G Connor
• I Cullen
• FJ Haskett
• David Sinclair
• y fielding
• Brian Joyce
• paul hawthorne
• Keith Snelling
• John Chandler
• Richard Clauson
• Chris McCulloch
• Malcolm Squires
• Andrew Watson
• James Bridge-Butler
• Mikael Welsh
• Irena Brzeski
• kevin day
• Lee Chambers
• Nigel Collighan
• dave coates
• Jay Long
• Barry Restell
• Denise Butler
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• Dave Benjafield
• Stephen France
• Gareth Cable
• John Barson
• Craig D Turton
• Dudley Taylor
• Dave
• Martyn Boyd
• Will Harfield
• Elisabeth Evenson
• Dan Alexander
• Aoin Douglas
• Dan Quick
• Stephen Moll
• Andrew Vaal
• matt jones
• J.M.Holder
• Geff Davey
• Bryn Griffiths
• a. robson
• Colin Porteous
• Bev Cowell
• thomas chapman
• jacki wright
• Rob Bellingham
• Matty Dredge
• Matthew Thomson
• Simon Clare
• Ian Ellis
• Martin Ward
• Robert McKenzie
• lee dower
• Ian Riggs
• TIM KEYWOOD
• Rachel Turner-Peard
• Russel Nelson
• PETER WOOD
• Paul Sinnott
• Alan Hill