Overview
- Rule 146 is being highlighted to stress that speed limits are not targets and that drivers must adapt to road type, traffic and weather.
- Coverage lists specific hazards to anticipate, including blind bends, vehicles emerging from junctions, unmarked junctions on rural roads and the need to be ready to stop at crossings and traffic controls.
- Rule 148 is being reiterated to warn against distractions that impair safe driving, with examples such as loud music, reading maps, adjusting audio, arguing, eating, drinking and smoking.
- Reports restate statutory smoking restrictions with minors present, noting bans in enclosed private vehicles carrying under‑18s in England and Wales and a separate offence in Scotland when an under‑18 is in a vehicle in a public place.
- One outlet reports that distraction-related offences could draw penalties of £100 to £5,000 and 3–9 licence points, presented as a media-cited range rather than a new legal change.