Fast and furious: Should you make way for a faster driver?

Fast and furious: Should you make way for a faster driver?

There’s been a heated debate about this traffic rule? On which side are you? 

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There’s been a heated debate about this traffic rule. What do you think? 

As per the law, drivers going 120km an hour are well within their rights to be in that lane.

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However, when a driver approaches at a higher speed, but the first vehicle refuses to move out of the way, who’s in the right?  

What happens if the first driver is law-abiding and stays put, causing frustration for the second driver? 

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What do you think?

According to Wheels24, Regulation 323(5) of the National Road Traffic Act says drivers should move over to the left lane if a faster vehicle approaches and if it is indeed safe to do so. 

The law does not say it is illegal when one refuses to do so, but that the first driver should make way. 

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