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Originally Posted by Mark_h
"Areas of white diagonal stripes or chevrons painted on the road. These are to separate traffic lanes or to protect traffic turning right.
•If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so.
•If the area is marked with chevrons and bordered by solid white lines you MUST NOT enter it except in an emergency."
Depends on whether necessary is the same as convenient.
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No necessary isn't the same as convenient.
It's a "should not" not a "MUST NOT", so it isn't illegal, but that doesn't mean you should take it to the opposite extreme and just ignore them.
You "should" have a vaild reason why it is "necessary". So you can overtake on them for instance if you are in a 60 limit and there's a truck doing 40 hence they are holding up traffic. It becomes "necessary" in order to carry out the overtake. But if the car in front of you is Mrs Miggins doing 58mph in her Micra, sorry, but it's no longer "necessary" to do the overtake.
If you have an accident whilst driving over diagonals or chevrons, you will almost certainly be held liable by the courts, because the very fact you had an accident means it clearly wasn't "safe to do so".
Can't comment on the circumstance in this video because I wasn't there, haven't seen the lane markings at the traffic lights, and can't see in the drivers mirrors.