Daylight saving time and drivers

From Sunday, March 29, daylight saving time starts and obligation for day lights during the day for motor vehicles stops, reported from HAK. It should also be noted that the drivers of mopeds and motorcycles throughout the year must run with the daytime lights or will be fined in the amount of HRK 300.

But if you go abroad, it is good to know that daytime running lights are the obligatory in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. In Ukraine, the daytime running lights are mandatory from 1 October to 30 April, in Italy on the highways, and in Hungary on the roads outside the village.

After all, if the law does not oblige you to have the lights on, it does not mean that you shouldn`t have them. The obligation lights in only during winter time explains the ecological reasons for beam increases total consumption and thereby increasing carbon emissions. As a result, some countries in which daytime running lights would be mandatory throughout the year gave up on that provision. On the other hand, experts believe that a little more consumption of fuel is worth for greater safety on the roads that lights bring.