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The pointlessness of outlawing hogging the middle lane

Law enforcement has little effect on road safety

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

It is nearly two years since the police were granted new powers to fine motorists for ‘hogging’ the middle lane of a motorway, but it’s only now that anyone has been convicted in court of this offence. A person driving a van at 60 mph on the M62 near Huddersfield has been fined £500 and given five penalty points for doggedly refusing to move out of the middle lane on to the inside one.

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