Imagine you’re in the blue car, wanting to turn left:
Green is turning right. There is only one lane.
Two options I see:
(1) Stay behind the green car, to the left (and behind the crossing) until they leave.
(2) Pull up to the left of the green car (as if there were two lanes).
I assume (1) is correct given there is technically only one lane, but I can’t find any materials on the NSW site or driving handbook about it and (2) is something I see other people do.
(I have my license test next week)
EDIT: Solved, option (2) is the right one. see https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/sharing-road-overtaking-and-merging/overtaking-safely
The only time you can overtake on the left is when the vehicle you’re overtaking is:
- waiting to turn right or make a U-turn from the centre of the road
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Your quoted & linked text actually addresses this exact situation:
The only time you can overtake on the left is when the vehicle you’re overtaking is:
- waiting to turn right or make a U-turn from the centre of the road
Thankyou :) It looks like I am supposed to use option (2) after all.
n this scenario because the road is not multi-laned it doesn’t seem permitted.
That list should have ‘or’ separating the options, only one of them has to be true to qualify as an exception instead of all of them. I swear NSW likes to make things more confusing in what is supposed to be clear language explanations of the rules - the actual road rules are often easier to understand (as they are in this case).
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I was out driving now and tried option (1), it didn’t seem to work.
I’m still the blue car and it was a slightly different intersection (without a crossing):
The person behind me (red) moved up next to me.
At that point I felt like I would be a hazard if I kept still, so I continued forwards (as per option (2)).
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Ninja edited the post with more diagrams, this time around there was no crossing.
