{"id":2033,"date":"2016-07-11T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2020-09-20T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T04:49:54","slug":"is-it-illegal-to-splash-a-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/is-it-illegal-to-splash-a-pedestrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it illegal to splash a pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in the UK, it is <strong>not illegal to splash a pedestrian<\/strong> with clean water from a puddle by driving through it. However, it <strong>is illegal in New South Wales to splash\u00a0mud on bus passengers<\/strong>. You could receive a $177 fine and 3 demerit points.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/road-spray-595x362.jpg\" alt=\"road-spray\" width=\"550\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/road-spray.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/road-spray-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The problem with splashing pedestrians (which some people think is funny, but actually is just inconsiderate) is that it puts the driver in danger. Running one side of your car&#8217;s wheels through deep water can cause you to lose control because of the extra drag on that side of the car, or through aquaplaning.<\/p>\n<p>If you see deep water it&#8217;s best to slow down to minimise the height and amount of water that&#8217;s splashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in the UK, it is not illegal to splash a pedestrian with clean water from a puddle by driving through it. However, it is illegal in New South Wales to splash\u00a0mud on bus passengers. You could receive a $177<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/is-it-illegal-to-splash-a-pedestrian\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driverknowledgetests.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}