Road users come in all different forms, there are pedestrians, horse riders, cyclists and of course, drivers. The Highway Code is seen by all of these road users as the default set of rules for correct road behaviour.

Although in 1930 there were only around 2 million motorcars on the roads, there were over 7000 deaths from car accidents. When you compare that to the 2006 statistics, (20 million cars, 3200 deaths from car accidents) it seems that road deaths were staggeringly high.

The government of the day knew that they needed to do something about this, thus the Highway Code was born. Now nearly 80 years old, it has had a lot of changes made to it over the years considering that the original version of the Code contained information about things like what actions to take when driving your carriage and horses, and was only 24 pages long!

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