Hi All,

Could anyone tell me where I could get a Spanish highway code written in 
English please. I had a little bump there a short while ago, and there was a 
dispute over the blame, but I have been told that I was at fault, because it 
is illegal to reverse a car (which was what I was doing) in Spain except in 
very exception circumstances.
Has anyone else heard of this?

Thanks in advance

Lofty

"lofty"  wrote in message 
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> Hi All,
>
> Could anyone tell me where I could get a Spanish highway code written in 
> English please.
Some of these might lead somewhere..
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/2420
http://www.getspain.net/motoring_177068.html

http://www.tourspain.co.uk/GettingAround/motoring.htm#SpanishMotorways
http://www.spanishresidence.com/drivinginspain.htm

-- 
Chris
Ignoti nulla cupido

"Cerumen"  wrote in message 
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> "lofty"  wrote in message 
> news:nYKdnW9Rgq4bd-bV4p2dnAA@posted.plusnet...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Could anyone tell me where I could get a Spanish highway code written in 
>> English please.
> Some of these might lead somewhere..
> http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/2420
> http://www.getspain.net/motoring_177068.html
>
> http://www.tourspain.co.uk/GettingAround/motoring.htm#SpanishMotorways
> http://www.spanishresidence.com/drivinginspain.htm
>
> -- 
> Chris
> Ignoti nulla cupido

Thanks for that, lots of interesting stuff, but I would like to know more 
about the road signs also.
I found to my cost reversing is illegal, didn't know 3point turns are also.
Lofty
>
>

"lofty"  wrote in message 
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> "Cerumen"  wrote in message 
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>>
>> "lofty"  wrote in message 
>> news:nYKdnW9Rgq4bd-bV4p2dnAA@posted.plusnet...
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Could anyone tell me where I could get a Spanish highway code written in 
>>> English please.
>> Some of these might lead somewhere..
>> http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/2420
>> http://www.getspain.net/motoring_177068.html
>>
>> http://www.tourspain.co.uk/GettingAround/motoring.htm#SpanishMotorways
>> http://www.spanishresidence.com/drivinginspain.htm
>>
>> -- 
>> Chris
>> Ignoti nulla cupido
>
> Thanks for that, lots of interesting stuff, but I would like to know more 
> about the road signs also.
> I found to my cost reversing is illegal, didn't know 3point turns are 
> also.
> Lofty
>>
>>
>
>
I go to Spain regularly to see my parents who live on the Costa Del Sol, 
I've never heard such nonsense - illegal to reverse!! 3 point turns!! I've 
done em all. How do you think you get out a parking space then? If that was 
the case surely car manufacturers would remove the reverse gear from there 
cars driven in Spain?
Steve.

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> "lofty"  wrote in message 
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>> "Cerumen"  wrote in message 
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>>>
>>> "lofty"  wrote in message 
>>> news:nYKdnW9Rgq4bd-bV4p2dnAA@posted.plusnet...
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Could anyone tell me where I could get a Spanish highway code written 
>>>> in English please.
>>> Some of these might lead somewhere..
>>> http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/2420
>>> http://www.getspain.net/motoring_177068.html
>>>
>>> http://www.tourspain.co.uk/GettingAround/motoring.htm#SpanishMotorways
>>> http://www.spanishresidence.com/drivinginspain.htm
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Chris
>>> Ignoti nulla cupido
>>
>> Thanks for that, lots of interesting stuff, but I would like to know more 
>> about the road signs also.
>> I found to my cost reversing is illegal, didn't know 3point turns are 
>> also.
>> Lofty
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> I go to Spain regularly to see my parents who live on the Costa Del Sol, 
> I've never heard such nonsense - illegal to reverse!! 3 point turns!! I've 
> done em all. How do you think you get out a parking space then? If that 
> was the case surely car manufacturers would remove the reverse gear from 
> there cars driven in Spain?
> Steve.

You check it out m8, my insurance had to accept liability because I was 
involved in a bump, (on the Costa del Sol)  because I was reversing and a 
twat came out of a side street looking the opposite way and we bumped, but 
in Spanish law it is illegal to reverse in towns, except in exceptional 
circumstances, and I've just discovered 3 point turns are illegal also.
It is also illegal to overtake on the motorway without indicating, and going 
through a tunnel, however short, without putting on your lights.
Take care m8, in Spain, I go regularly but I learn new things all the 
time.My friend got done 50euro's for turning left out of a road, something 
the Spanish do all the time on this particular road, but my friend got done 
as it was illegal.

Lofty

>
>

"lofty"  wrote in message 
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> "Cerumen"  wrote in message 
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>>
>> "lofty"  wrote in message 
>> news:nYKdnW9Rgq4bd-bV4p2dnAA@posted.plusnet...
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Could anyone tell me where I could get a Spanish highway code written in 
>>> English please.
>> Some of these might lead somewhere..
>> http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/2420
>> http://www.getspain.net/motoring_177068.html
>>
>> http://www.tourspain.co.uk/GettingAround/motoring.htm#SpanishMotorways
>> http://www.spanishresidence.com/drivinginspain.htm
>>

>
> Thanks for that, lots of interesting stuff, but I would like to know more 
> about the road signs also.
> I found to my cost reversing is illegal, didn't know 3point turns are 
> also.
> Lofty
>>
Also note that it is now illegal to drive anything in France without an 
approved flourescent jacket being in the car and the police say they will 
enforce it strictly after a shore period of grace during which warnings will 
be given..

-- 
Chris
Ignoti nulla cupido

"Cerumen"  wrote in
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> Also note that it is now illegal to drive anything in France without
> an approved flourescent jacket being in the car and the police say
> they will enforce it strictly after a shore period of grace during
> which warnings will be given..

It's the same in Portugal - and if you break down you have to put the 
jacket on before getting out of the car.

"Geoff Lane" <geoff@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> "Cerumen"  wrote in
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>
>> Also note that it is now illegal to drive anything in France without
>> an approved flourescent jacket being in the car and the police say
>> they will enforce it strictly after a shore period of grace during
>> which warnings will be given..
>
> It's the same in Portugal - and if you break down you have to put the
> jacket on before getting out of the car.

It's new in France for private cars as I understand it although it was a 
week or so since I read it so the memory is hazy on details.

-- 
Chris,
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is 
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur 
Schopenhauer