The Highway Code governs circulation on all Italian roads with rules that all vehicles must comply with.
Determines what vehicles can and cannot do in each situation, setting out the exceptions and sanctions envisaged in the event of an infringement committed in consciously unconscious way.
We should all know the Highway Code by heart and follow any changes applied over the course of days, months and years. Yet no one keeps up to datethat’s why infractions are often committed which, even if stupid, cost dearly.
Why it is important to know the highway code
When we get a driving license we study the rules of the highway code and for this reason we know them very well. At first we respect all of them, then slowly we forget them. Both because they should be refreshed every now and then, and because it is difficult to create certain situations on the roads we travel on in which some of them in particular need to be applied. Eventually we forget about it completely.
Then obviously negligence cannot be missing. Many, despite knowing the rules, choose to ignore them because it’s simpler, you find yourself at an advantage in particular situations without realizing that with that behavior you can cause harm to others, compromising vehicle safety.
Here’s what is forbidden according to the Highway Code
The highway code dwells in particular on parking and stopping, which are practically prohibited on the motorway, except in certain emergency conditions, when you can use the appropriate lane. Often the emergency lane is also used improperly by motorists who are in a hurry and do not want to queue civilly in the lane or in the fast lane.
The crafty ones who occupy the emergency lane perhaps don’t know, or pretend not to know, that it can be used on the motorway for vehicles with breakdowns or in the event of health emergencies for no more than three hours.
Or it can be used for emergency vehicles such as medical cars, ambulances, fire trucks and law enforcement vehicles.
There hard shoulder can only accommodate one vehicle because it’s tight. Consequently it must always be free. Those who occupy it for no reason are not putting themselves and others at risk but causing problems in rescue operations and risking hefty fines.
In these cases the fine ranges from €370 to €1,485, plus 10 points are deducted from the driving license with the risk of suspension of the same from two to six months. If you occupy the lane for breakdown cars or accident, you must remember to keep the danger sign exposed unless you want to risk a fine ranging from €74 to €296 and a deduction of 2 points, plus detention of the vehicle.
