Update, that VIC Burnley tunnel crash

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Thunder wrote: - The ACA video clearly shows the ACA car enters the tunnel and exits the tunnel at a constant speed in the same lane. No erratic behaviour by ACA. The Truck driver is fully responsible for the accident.

Fault, and apportioned fault will be determined in time.

If you watch the video you can see that the mercedes and the truck both merge into the same lane (middle lane) at the same time. But the mercedes is in fact ahead of the truck.

Additional issues here too, insufficient warning etc being one of them.

The mercedes is doing the right thing (ie he is overtaking via a lane on his right) and the truckie is doing the wrong thing (overtaking via a lane to his left!)

Much more to it than that. Remember, it is not an offence to overtake a car in the left lane, provided it is just that, a marked lane.

This is perfect example as to why you dont overtake via a lane to your left people.

When driving in the left lane of three laned sections of freeway, I often pass slower traffic to my right camped in the middle lane, I am 'keepling left'. Here in NSW (and indeed in GB, China, India, Sg, Malaysia etc) we use this method, its mirror-reverse of German and EU Continental learner driver training.

We DON'T teach this in VIC, QLD, SA WA, SA, TAS, ACT where the middle-lane of three-laned freeways is considered the left-lane all too often by a public who interpret the middle lane as the left lane.

http://www.fordforums.com.au/attachm...chmentid=28821

That will change with time.