"JoeDe" wrote:

Good Point!
Eveyone knows of someone or possibly themselves has been fined for an
offence in a car, but has anyone ever heard of a motorist actually being
pulled over and fined for passing a cyclist too close?
I'm not talking about motorist fined after hitting a cyclists but just for
passing too close.
After all it is the law. Apparently.

Actually, no. At least not in the Victorian Road Rules
http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/rd.../0/part_11.pdf

"Rule 144 A driver overtaking a vehicle-
a) must pass the vehicle at a sufficient distance to avoid a collision with
the vehicle or obstructing the path of the vehicle; and
b) must not return to the marked lane or line of traffic where the vehicle
is travelling until the driver is a sufficient distance past the vehicle to
avoid a collision with the vehicle or obstructing the path of the vehicle"

No mention of a 1 metre space in the road rules that I could find. This is a
recommendation I believe, and would be impossible to enforce, without a
camera on every car!


However the rules on double lines in the country - now there's a law that
95% of drivers break when overtaking cyclists. Very easy to enforce with
police presence! Interesting too that drivers changing lanes (ie. overtaking
a cyclist on a multilane road) are required to change lanes fully - none of
this moving out half a lane to cut by a cyclist.


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Cheers
Peter

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