{"id":969,"date":"2009-01-22T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/mag\/?p=969"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:58:24","slug":"driving-pedestrians-mad-buy-the-highway-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/driving-pedestrians-mad-buy-the-highway-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving pedestrians mad &#8211; Buy the Highway Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">The Driving Standards Agency has revealed that one million copies of the official Highway Code was sold during 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">This means there are 33 million other road users including drivers, cyclists and pedesrians without this book. These are most likely to be the drivers who seem to be unaware that stopping at zebra crossings with waiting pedesrians is a requirement, and that cycling on pavements and through red lights is not optional. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">A national media campaign promoting the Official Highway Code to all road users will be running from January. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">DSA Chief Executive, Rosemary Thew said: &#8220;It is essential that all motorists refresh their knowledge of the rules and signs of the roads time and time again. The volume of sales is encouraging. But we still need to do more to reduce the number of casualties on our roads. We all have a responsibility to observe the Highway Code and drive appropriately and every road user needs to take road safety seriously. &#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Driving Standards Agency has revealed that one million copies of the official Highway Code was sold during 2007. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Driving pedestrians mad - Buy the Highway Code - Bristol News From Chopsy Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/driving-pedestrians-mad-buy-the-highway-code\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Driving pedestrians mad - Buy the Highway Code - Bristol News From Chopsy Bristol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Driving Standards Agency has revealed that one million copies of the official Highway Code was sold during 2007. \u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/driving-pedestrians-mad-buy-the-highway-code\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bristol News From Chopsy Bristol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chopsybristol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-01-22T13:06:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-02T12:58:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chopsy Baby\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ChopsyBristol\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ChopsyBristol\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chopsy Baby\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/chopsybaby.com\\\/magazine\\\/driving-pedestrians-mad-buy-the-highway-code\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/chopsybaby.com\\\/magazine\\\/driving-pedestrians-mad-buy-the-highway-code\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chopsy Baby\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/chopsybaby.com\\\/magazine\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fe306b4021d70f6d81c9ca9d0b50f0db\"},\"headline\":\"Driving pedestrians mad &#8211; 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