What is the purpose of the Highway code? To fill the coffers of a council, or to ensure safe driving procedures are followed. ? Surely any definition of an U turn would refer to the safety aspect. Please define an U turn. Which is more dangerous and also polluting. To drive around not able to make a safe change of direction, or when an opportunity arises to make a safe change in direction and keep your journey short. Not contravening any road signs in so doing. Not that any are seen on any of the google cameras in the vicinity. If you turn off the carriageway, manouvered stopped and after a period of time, safely rejoin said carriageway are you saying that you cannot change direction by 180°. This is what you aappear to be saying.

You are wrong in stating that I blocked the entrance. The left lane where I was parked off the road behind the two bollards was blocked off for building works. As Welsh pete says it is now a building site. So by your own definition being the building works side of the two bollards I was off the road. I was not blocking an entrance. It was safe driving. I did not drive along the footpath. I drove in off the road behind the bollards, manouvered and parked. Got out fetched the map from the back of the car, sat again checked map, and pulled out crossing the path and not driving along it. The camera evidence shows that I was parked off the road for over a minute and 15 seconds at least. All traffic entering and leaving that site has to turn right, and come out again. Does this change your advice. What is your definition of an u turn? You have not provided one. I think you are trying to do a difficult helpful job here, thanks for your attention in this matter . RJHughes driver since 1970. IAM No. 181473

Pete I was in exactly the same position as you on the 28th January. A camera operator does not know what an U turn is. I turned right into a large building complex behind the two bollards. See Google maps photos. I parked having to reverse at one point. I got out of the drivers door to get a map from the rear seat. Got back in, checked the map while parked safely off the road, and only then after a couple of minutes or more did I set off again. This operator thinks it was an U turn. Get the councils definition of an U turn, and ask what qualifications in understanding the Highway code and safe driving this camera operator has to be harassing safe drivers. If he has no qualifications. No full driving licence. Is he fit for post? I attach my altered Google photo to help in my defence.