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You know you can legally carry on your way in lane 1, you don’t have to switch to lane 3 and then back to lane 1 just to overtake a vehicle in lane 2. Just breeze past as you are
However sometimes, the lane 1 > 3 and back again sometimes (sometimes!) is enough of a gesture for lane 2 moron to realise what they’re doing is wrong making them move to lane 1. But that is a rarity
Is that really so? I had assumed that passing on the inside is forbidden and could in itself lead to prosecution.You know you can legally carry on your way in lane 1, you don’t have to switch to lane 3 and then back to lane 1 just to overtake a vehicle in lane 2. Just breeze past as you are
I routinely see this travelling up an down the M1 - so frustrating!
There are very limited circumstances in which you can overtake on the left (inside) without risk of being reported for an offence. Typically, these are limited to:Is that really so? I had assumed that passing on the inside is forbidden and could in itself lead to prosecution.
Personally, I would much prefer that it was made legal to overtake on the inside on dual carriageways and motorways
Personally, I would much prefer that it was made legal to overtake on the inside on dual carriageways and motorways as it is in much of the USA.
Maybe, depends where you live I expect.I often use the urban dual carriageways round here and every single day there are idiots that drive in the outside lane for mile after mile, never turning right, going straight ahead at roundabouts, etc, etc... I wonder if they are more accustomed to driving on the right, having learnt outside the UK?
Lovely idea, but who's going to do that? We're already well aware that TrafPol numbers are woefully inadequate to deal with more than one significant incident at a time in any given area, so expecting them to carry out patrols and "provide words of advice" or stick on errant drivers when appropriate is pie in the sky. I don't think that's right, but that's where we are, so the reality is that it just won't happen.Enforced lane discipline & prosecution of those flouting the 'stay left' rule is the only answer.
Which is the complete opposite to my experience, so we'll have to agree to disagree on that one.Deffo not an improvement & just doesn't work IME - Pick a lane, any lane
That would contradict the understanding, by the better class of driver, that we should drive to left as the norm.
If we were permitted to pass on 'our' nearside then to keep in any lane as normal becomes a matter of choice.
Is it middle lane hogging if there are no vehicles being impeded?
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