It is a longstanding practice, especially by road train truckers on the nation's long interior highways, but this act of politeness is 'actually dangerous'.
It is a common occurrence on Australia's regional roads: A truck driver, taking advantage of their elevated position, flicks their right indicator to signal to cars behind that it is safe to overtake.Right indication is commonly used to tell someone to overtake, but the practice is illegalThe road safety commissioner is urging people to be aware of the law
Chamber of Minerals and Energy north-west officer Meghan Brouwer said mining companies were receiving an increasing number of reports of dangerous close calls. "Next minute, there's fluff and dirt and everything is flying around — it was a lady in a car who thought I put my indicator on for her to go past me."
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