The UK Highway Code: 8 changes

26 January 2022

Rules for all types of road users will be updated in The Highway Code to improve the safety of people walking, cycling and riding horses.

The changes follow a public consultation on a review of The Highway Code to improve road safety for people walking, cycling and riding horses. It ran from July to October 2020, and received more than 20,000 responses from the public, businesses and other organisations. Most people who responded were in favour of all the changes.

The changes will be made to The Highway Code from Saturday 29 January 2022. Here are 8 of the changes:

• introducing a new hierarchy of road users
• crossing the road at junctions
• walking, cycling or riding in shared spaces
• positioning in the road when cycling
• overtaking when driving or cycling
• cycling at junctions
• people cycling, riding horses and driving horse-drawn vehicles on roundabouts
• parking, charging and leaving vehicles

More information is available here.