§ Mr. Critchleyasked the Minister of Transport if, in the interests of safety, he will make regulations to prevent lorries from using the third or fast lane or three-lane motorways to overtake other slower moving vehicles.
§ Mr. MarplesThe blocking of the fast lane by slow overtaking vehicles is bad driving and dangerous. I condemn this practice unreservedly. Lorry drivers are not the only offenders. But I am not at present satisfied that the best way to improve matters is by regulations although I will keep this idea under review. Meanwhile I am considering what more can be done to bring home to drivers their responsibility to observe the rules of motorway behaviour which are contained in the Highway Code and to which continuous publicity has been devoted.