> The highway code is a simple guide to the road traffic act, and it contains best current practice, but people are not required to follow the highway code. Tr

> The highway code is a simple guide to the road traffic act, and it contains best current practice, but people are not required to follow the highway code. True, but failing to follow the highway code can result in legal liability. From https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/introduction https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/introduction: "Although failure to comply with the other rules of the Code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, The Highway Code may be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts (see The road user and the law) to establish liability. This includes rules which use advisory wording such as ‘should/should not’ or ‘do/do not’."