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flyingdutch

aint there some minumum prior distance before enacting the 'indicated' act that a driver must follow?

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"flyingdutch" <flyingdutch.19tiz0@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote
in message news:flyingdutch.19tiz0@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com
> ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} Wrote:
>> "DRS" <drs@remove.this.ihug.com.au> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> In Victoria it is illegal for bikes to pass a car on the left that
>>> is indicating it is going to turn left
>>
>> Indicating? What is this new and facinating thing you call
>> "Indicating"? I've noticed that alot of car's don't indicate, esp
>> when turning off of expressways.

That is true.

> aint there some minumum prior distance before enacting the 'indicated'
> act that a driver must follow?

Funnily enough, no. Victorian Road Rules 46(2) (left turn) and 48(2) (right
turn) simply say "The driver must give the change of direction signal for
long enough to give sufficient warning to other drivers and pedestrians."

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/vrpdf/randl/part_05.pdf

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mfhor

"Sufficient warning"? That's mostly two clicks, if they bother to treat you as a valid road user. Being cut off by peripherally blind motorists is one of the several top causes of bad crashes I've had.

M"Implant wing mirrors in ther skulls!"H

Paulus

The law seems to imply that indicating and intitiating the intended movement
AT THE SAME TIME is not acceptable. This is what tends to happen!


"DRS" <drs@remove.this.ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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> "flyingdutch" <flyingdutch.19tiz0@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote
> in message news:flyingdutch.19tiz0@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com
> > ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} Wrote:
> >> "DRS" <drs@remove.this.ihug.com.au> writes:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> In Victoria it is illegal for bikes to pass a car on the left that
> >>> is indicating it is going to turn left
> >>
> >> Indicating? What is this new and facinating thing you call
> >> "Indicating"? I've noticed that alot of car's don't indicate, esp
> >> when turning off of expressways.
>
> That is true.
>
> > aint there some minumum prior distance before enacting the 'indicated'
> > act that a driver must follow?
>
> Funnily enough, no. Victorian Road Rules 46(2) (left turn) and 48(2)
(right
> turn) simply say "The driver must give the change of direction signal for
> long enough to give sufficient warning to other drivers and pedestrians."
>
> http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/vrpdf/randl/part_05.pdf
>
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