It’s that time of year when drivers (who don’t know what they’re doing) dazzle oncoming motorists. This disease usually afflicts women, young people and drivers of 4X4’s. They see a switch for front fog lights, yet do not understand how they work, or more to the point how they affect other road users.

Fog lights are hi-intensity beams of light designed with a wide arc, designed and positioned to light the side of the road without reflecting back off the water droplets in the fog. Consequently when the morons (you know who you are) use them on wet, dark and clear (i.e. not foggy) nights, the low-level hi-intensity beams reflect, in a wide arc, off the road surface and into the eyes of on-coming motorists. Of course this does not affect the moron with the in-appropriate light as it is reflecting away, but the rest of us suffer for the arrogance of these half-baked self absorbed idiots.

Of course this is compounded when they are attached to the front of 4X4’s as they are a lot higher and don’t need to reflect off the road surface.

So from now on, anyone caught using front fog lights inappropriately, will be sentenced to stare at the sun for 12 hrs. If they can still see after that then they will know the difficulties they are inflicting on their victims