Whoever has never squatted a little too long the middle lane throw the first stone at me. Because whether we are a perfect motorist or not, we have all installed ourselves in this line, sometimes out of inattention, often out of ease. Because the reasons for staying in the middle are many, ranging from ignorance of the Traffic Laws to the desire to be quiet and not to have to brake to let others fit in. Anyway, more than a third of French motorists are followers of this practice, according to a very serious study, conducted by the Observatory of Sanef. Even worse, “ at night, one in two drivers rolls excessively in the middle lane “According to Pascal Contremoulins, head of security for the Sanef group questioned by the Huffington Post. A very widespread practice, therefore, but which is not without danger, for you as for the others.
Indeed, the traffic on the middle lane created traffic jams, preventing motorists from distributing themselves correctly on the tracks. As a reminder, traffic must be in the right lane, while the two furthest to the left should only be used for overtaking, over a short distance. Once the maneuver is done, everyone should then fall back to the far right. In theory. Except that when motorists drive in the middle, some are then tempted to overtake them on the right, the left lane being then already used, sometimes blocked by drivers driving slower. In addition to generating new offenses, this also endangers … Read more on Auto moto: auto et moto magazine
Whoever has never squatted a little too long the middle lane throw the first stone at me. Because whether we are a perfect motorist or not, we have all installed ourselves in this line, sometimes out of inattention, often out of ease. Because the reasons for staying in the middle are many, ranging from ignorance of the Traffic Laws to the desire to be quiet and not to have to brake to let others fit in. Anyway, more than a third of French motorists are followers of this practice, according to a very serious study, conducted by the Observatory of Sanef. Even worse, “ at night, one in two drivers rolls excessively in the middle lane “According to Pascal Contremoulins, head of security for the Sanef group questioned by the Huffington Post. A very widespread practice, therefore, but which is not without danger, for you as for the others.
Indeed, the traffic on the middle lane created traffic jams, preventing motorists from distributing themselves correctly on the tracks. As a reminder, traffic must be in the right lane, while the two furthest to the left should only be used for overtaking, over a short distance. Once the maneuver is done, everyone should then fall back to the far right. In theory. Except that when motorists drive in the middle, some are then tempted to overtake them on the right, the left lane being then already used, sometimes blocked by drivers driving slower. In addition to generating new offenses, this also endangers … Read more on Auto moto: auto et moto magazine
