Update to Highway Code

[Cookham Webmaster]

The Highway Code is being updated from end of January 2022 to help protect vulnerable road users.

These updates to the rules aim to protect the most vulnerable road users.  Creating a hierarchy of users, including pedestrians, particularly children, older or disabled people, cyclists, motorcyclists, and horse riders.

With regards to passing horses, road users must:
🐴 pass horses (including horse drawn vehicles) under 10mph
🐴 give a 2m clearance when passing, and if this is not possible it will be the law to wait until it is clear to do so.

[Birdman]

Given that the horses are probably already doing ten miles per hour, this effectively bans overtaking altogether!