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Check your lights, please!

I have searched through the archives but I have been unable to find the relevant by-law that says it is acceptable for vehicles to drive at night with defective headlights.

Going by the number of vehicles I have passed in the evenings, there has to be some kind of by-law that allows them to do this.

Otherwise they would be replacing the blown lamps instead of blinding oncoming traffic with their working headlight on full beam!

It doesn’t cost very much to replace a defective lamp and only takes a few minutes (usually) to change said lamp.

Would it be too much to ask that the drivers with defective headlights find the time to replace them.

Otherwise someone is going to end up off the road, having been blinded by a vehicle driving with full beam on to compensate. I am surprised that the police haven’t clamped down on this problem.

Tom Anderson
49 Leaside
Mossbank

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