il padrone wrote:It is only illegal to pass on the left of a car that is indicating and actually turning left. Stationary does not equal turning.
That's what I used to think the Victorian Road Safety Rules (Nov 2009) said, but then while searching the document recently, I found this nasty little surprise near the end of the document:
Victorian Road Safety Rules, Nov. 2009 wrote:Use of present tense for some actions
The Road Rules may say that a driver "is turning" at an intersection. The use of the present tense is intended to cover both the present and future aspects of the present tense. That is, it refers to a driver who is preparing to make the turn as well as a driver who is in the course of making the turn. The context will make this clear in the rule.
A very unwelcome addition to the document, as it makes some of the road rules very much open to interpretation, since clarity of context can sometimes be a bit subjective
. The above might mean that in the following road rule:
141 No overtaking etc. to the left of a vehicle
(2) The rider of a bicycle must not ride past, or overtake, to the left of a vehicle that is turning left and is giving a left change of direction signal.
the underlined section (I added the underlining, of course) might be interpreted by lawyers to mean that the rule applies even when the vehicle is not actually in the middle of turning, but its driver is only
preparing to turn left. That wouldn't be
my interpretation, but some people might try to use that interpretation.