If it isn’t driving in opposition to site visitors, it’s reversing into it. We’re positive you’ve seen it earlier than on highways, that automobile stopped on the highway, normally on the emergency lane, slowly making a crawl rearwards in an effort to get to the exit ramp missed earlier. Harmful? You guess. Unlawful? For positive.
That doesn’t cease some drivers from attempting, within the course of not simply halting site visitors stream but in addition placing different highway customers in danger. In an incident that occurred earlier this week, a driver in a Proton Saga Aeroback almost brought about an accident when making an attempt to reverse again a two-lane expressway in the direction of an exit ramp. Because it neared the exit, it had to take action on the left lane of the freeway, successfully a static object on a site visitors lane.
At that time, a Honda HR-V on the identical lane caught up with the errant car, and managed to brake to an entire cease. A Proton X50 following behind would have rear ended the Honda had the motive force, who was not anticipating site visitors to cease immediately on the free-moving route – not swung his car out to the quick lane.
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— Azizi Arshad (@aziziarshad) April 11, 2024
Dashcams caught the entire scene – which unfolded in a short time – in a TikTok put up by eazyizzuddin, and it’s wonderful that the entire thing didn’t find yourself with a three-car collision due to one silly act. The Saga driver appeared unrepentant, having utilizing hand indicators to point his goal of desirous to contine reversing in the direction of the exit ramp.
In the event you miss an exit, you’ll simply have to take action on the subsequent one. Positive, it’ll value you extra drive time, however certainly that’s higher than ending up not making it to the place you needed to go within the first place. In any case, it’s in opposition to the legislation to take action.
Underneath Part 42 (1) of the Street Transport Act (Modification) 2020, such motion constitutes reckless and harmful driving, and people convicted might be punished by a positive and imprisonment in addition to be disqualified from holding or acquiring a driving license for a very good interval.
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