Here’s something we’re pretty sure most Malaysian motorists can relate to – lane-hogging. In the UK, a van driver has become the nation’s first person to be charged for driving in an “inconsiderate manner” for hogging the middle lane of a highway. The driver was pulled over by the police in West Yorkshire after failing to move to the left lane of the M62 route on August 25 2014.
As a result, six drivers were reportedly forced to brake and swerve to overtake the driver in his Citroen Berlingo van. The driver was then fined a total of £500 (RM2,944) for failing to appear in court followed by an additional £400 (RM2,355) in costs and a £40 (RM235) surcharge. Said van driver also incurred a five-point penalty on his license.
This would mark the first time a driver has been fined for lane-hogging since the introduction of such a law in the UK back in 2013. The government revealed an on-the-spot fine of £100 (RM588) to help curb said behaviour. However, the fact that it’s taken almost two years for someone to be penalised raises questions on the effectiveness of the police force in enforcing said law.
A decrease in the number of traffic police officers is said to be the number one reason for the lack of enforcement. With that said, better late than never, right? So, what do you say? Should a similar law be introduced here – and if so, how much should the fine cost? Let us know in the comments below.
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Yes, punishment must be 100 kali sebat. No mercy to lane hoggers.
Citroen drivers, similar disease like Peugeot drivers. Clarkson and May was right about them.
Yea bro…hope you don’t drive a Volvo too or that means you have the same disease. And if you like Volvo, means you like the disease.
Yea, especially the mod Iswara/Saga/Waja/Persona/Wira crawling at the middle lane these day. They think they bergaya with the ugly skirting.
I actually understand these drivers feeling: They want speed too, but the engine is too fuel hunger.
No money change car, no money buy fuel, what to do? At least crawl at the left lane lar!!
Lol most older p1 cars are highway cruising, with good handling it is safer than those much lighter cars.
Proton handling is acceptable for limited models like Preve, Suprima S and Iriz only.
Good handling for Wira, Waja, Iswara, Satria? lol…
You thought we never drove Proton before?
Liar. Waja got lotus tuned handling
Your son use saga anyway.
In Malaysia if a person hogging is pulled over, this will happen.
Polis: Encik Bersalah kerana hogging lane.
Lane Hogger: Saya tahu Encik. Saya Minta maaf.
Polis: Ini mahal ni saman RM300.
Lane Hogger: Aiyoo Encik RM300 habis la saya
Polis:
Okey, saya tolong anda. Bila bagi lessen kepada saya, you fold benda itu dan sama sama sekali bagi lesen dengan benda it. Tapi anda mesti bagi dengan ikhlas.
negativity wont get u nowhere. until when must we become cynical individual
Don’t think its negativity. In Malaysia RM50 boleh selesai any trafik offence. Better than UK. If you short of money, even RM10 also can settle.
pemberi & penerima rasuah. 2×5.
sama2 bersalah…
More likely this scenario,
Polis: Encik, sila bagi lesen dan IC.
Offender: (takes phone and record) APA SALAH! APA SALAH! APA SALAH! SAYA ADA SALAHKAH! BERITAU APA SALAH!
Polis: Encik, telah melanggar peraturan jalanraya kerana didapati memandu secara merbahaya.
Offender: MANA ADA! MANA ADA! MANADA! MANA LAW KATA SAYA PANDU SALAH!
Polis: Encik telah melanggar peraturan Akta…. , jadi sila beri kerjasama dan sila tunjukkan lesen dan ic.
Offender: MANADA BAHAYA! SAYA TAK BAHAYA! U SAJA YANG KATA BAHAYA!
Polis: Sila beri kerjasama, encik.
Offender: SAYA TAK BAHAYA! U SAJA MAU DUIT KAN! BERAPA MAU!
Polis: Saya beri amaran, encik boleh disabit kesalahan memberi rasuah. Saya bagi chance. Kalau encik tak mau beri kerjasama, saya akan repot.
Offender: HAHH? REPOT? U TAK MAU DUIT KE? LAIN POLIS SAYA BAGI SEMUA AMBIK! U BETUL KE POLIS! MANA NOMBOR U! TUNJUKKAN!
Polis: Ini nombor saya…..Sekarang sila beri kerjasama.
Offender: SAYA TAK MAU! MANADA POLIS TAK MAU WANG! U INGAT U SANGAT BESAR KAH!
Polis: Jikalau encik tak mau beri kerjasama, saya terpaksa impaun kereta encik, kerana encik akan merbahayakan keselamatan pengguna jalanraya lain.
Offender: MANA BOLEH! MANA BOLEH! SAYA TAK SALAH! LU SAJA MAU TANGKAP SAYA!
Polis: Encik sila keluar dari kereta sekarang juga! Encik tidak mau beri kerjasama, saya terpaksa tahan encik!
Offender: SAYA TAK MAU! SAYA TAK MAU! SAYA TAK MAU! APA SALAH SAYA! APA SALAH SAYA! APA SALAH SAYA!
Polis: (reaches in and tries to take the car keys away)
Offender: (tries to block and struggles with police).
Polis: (opens the door and drags the offender to the ground).
Offender: (finally surrenders and goes to jail/court. Released on bail)
Offender: (goes home and edit the video taken, showing police brutality. Upload to youtube and inform Mkini on this issue. Netizens rage against police and supports offender. Offender winliaolor!)
well said there bro..should add “based on true story” too.
should end like this.
Polis: Ini mahal ni saman RM300.
Lane Hogger: Encik saman sahaja dah salah saya.
end of story.. no rasuah. why you blame polis for rasuah… you the one who give them..
So you think the who give bribe is a good people? The one who offer money are just the with the one who accept the money..
Hyundai, Nissan, Unser and Exora drivers beware. lol
myvi drivers , toyota drivers . beware.
Exora nowadays got turbo, where got slow. Torquey than Honda i-VTEC 2.0l. Unless the driver himself is slow drievr.
Torque doesn’t give you speed.
Who cares whether you like it or not, p1 usually wins over merc onkarak.
Merc is junk from german.
Merc handling sucks big time. BMW has much better one.
Merc drivers are ah pek always slow and hogging road
Most of the time its alphards and camry hogging 2 lanes. They think they own the road. Should be fined 100k and 100 kali sebat.
Yes….introduce this law in Malaysia I’m sure you will no be re-elect the next election. there are a lot of Road hogers in Malaysia….
Thankfully it wasn’t Captain Slow. Haha. By the way, how slow was the dude driving exactly (compared to speed limit), until 6 drivers had to brake & swerve? Curious to know how they managed to prove this in court (someone’s onboard camera or the van had some sort of speed tracking thingy)? Cos speed cameras don’t exactly shoot people going below speed limit.
JPJ or Polis will get rich if this rule were apply in Pahang.
Yess sokonggggg 1000 persen.
Rm100 ok la…jgn 100 pound pulak.
We could use that, if the enforcement agencies can manage to enforce existing laws proficiently… Perhaps if they recieve commission for the jobs they do but each summons issued needs photographic or video as proof?
So is the article saying that UK police is just as selow as our Polis Trafik?
Or that our polis is actually on par with UK police?
Please bring this to Boleh-land.
Its a wonder why lane-hoggers drive anywhere but the left and when road conditions are the same on all lanes.
Yes do it! They cause huge amount of accidents because average speed drivers need to serve out to overtake them, or brake and risk a bumper-to-bumper accident in congested hours! And they cause mini traffic jams too. Imagine a 4 lane highway, 3 cars block 3 lanes, it suddenly becomes a 1 lane expressway with 3 lorry lanes…
Alza: car one moment, mpv another
Malaysian driver: road hogging one moment, tailgating another
15 years back one of my friend was stopped by the police on federal highway(smooth traffic) due to his slow driving behavior(around 40-50km/j) in the most left lane. He was given a summon for doing that. I guess there are traffic law that prohibits people from obstructing the traffic flow. Btw, he was unfamiliar with KL/Selangor roads then, and he still thinks that the police did nothing wrong. Eventually, the police escorted him to the destination he wished to go.
Before do anything, please cure the parking disease first !!!
*gulp* @_@
I…I really like the left lane you know?… It’s not as if I want it all to myself!
I mean, if you guys wanna speed just shoo off to the right lane ;_; !
Yours sincerely,
Left Lane Lover
Hope to impose this at Seremban 4 lane stretch. Some driver driving 80km/h on the 2nd right lane.
Paul putting Camry hybrid photo for this post, are u mean we as Camry hybrid driver always road hogging?
Better put myvi or SAGA BLM foto lah
Just so happen it’s a file pic, don’t be so sensitive :) I personally own a Camry Hybrid too.
You damn lane hogger >:(
Great Choice
Camry is the king of the roads, globally
We should implement a minimum speed limit (like in the autobahn) say like 80kmh on nkve or north south expressway. I really hate it when some cars drives 50kmh on the middle lane, i have to keep on overtaking those idiots going back and fourth between overtaking lane and middle lane,
very true, because those on the middle lane, some 50kph, some 60khp, some 80kph, we cant drive at a constant speed, end up many less skilled driver want to overtake, but slow and dont want to move over, becomes never ending.. very tiring on Northsouth express where most is 2 lane only…
The reason this guy got fined was for middle lane hogging. That means, although there was no cars on the left most lane, he remained on the middle lane. It doesn’t really matter what speed you are travelling at but the rules of the highway is stick left unless overtaking (ikut kiri kecuali memotong). which means the way you describe ‘middle lane’ and ‘overtaking lane’ implies you would hog the middle lane until a you have to overtake a car whereby you move to the right lane and move back to the middle lane. If you do that and there are no cars that you are overtaking on the left lane, you are considered to be a middle lane hogger. Most malaysian drivers have a mentality that ‘left lane’ is for lorry,buses etc ‘middle lane’ is for cars who want to chill and drive and ‘fast lane’ or ‘right lane’ is for cars who want to speed…. this is obviously wrong! Malaysians are so used to a 3 lane highway which is why they have adopted this mentality. It also explains why there are cob-webs on the furthest left lane on the newly expanded North-South highway which has 4-5 lanes. Malaysians only know how to use 3 lanes.
Malaysia should have this law as well as a minimum speed limit, both in town and highways. The fine should be RM500.00 maximum.
And of course, we need strong enforcement too, not just lip service.
PaulTan is being misleading in linking this case to the situation in Malaysia. Most Msians driver are not having issue with people hogging the middle lanes, they are having issues with people not speeding as fast as they are on the right lane. It is also misleading by omitting the fact that the UK impose fine on both middle-lane hogging AND tailgating. Most Msians who complain about the overtaking lane would have been fined anyway for tailgating, which is something they love to do while flashing the high beams.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22784983
Careless drivers across Britain who hog lanes or tailgate can now be punished with on-the-spot police fines.
Under the new measures, officers can issue £100 fines and three points rather than taking drivers to court.
Ministers said it would make tackling problem motorists easier. The AA said a third of drivers risked facing a fine.
Fixed penalties for a number of offences, including using a phone or not wearing a seatbelt while driving, have also risen from £60 to £100.
More serious driving offences will still go through the courts and could result in much higher fines and penalties.
it is middle-lane hogging AND tailgating, not forgetting speeding. Come on, just admit it, there are more Msians speeding and tailgating in a manner that would have their license suspended and revoked in many developed countries than they are people who are hogging the middle lanes. Just admit it you guys who are complaining are one of them and then look long and hard in the mirror and think whether you really want the law to be strictly enforced. think long and hard. you cannot have it both ways.
what about the drivers who drive at 110km/h on the fast lane (on a highway with 110km/h limit), but refuse to budge when there is a faster car coming behind?
Er, what about it?
Car exceeding 110km/h speed limit is speeding.
Hogging means occupying the lane when the left lane is free, though it implies that we are driving below the appropriate speed for that stretch of road.
Malaysian roads have a bigger problem with speeding morons who tailgate and flash high lights.
A happiest day today.
Yes, please penalise those inconsiderate mulish drivers.
Before we introduce more laws (Malaysia got lots of laws) firstly we have to know why such laws was implemented in UK or any other parts of the world. We also have to understand whether Malaysia shares the same law as in the UK.
I know some countries eg NZ have very strict laws and also strict enforcement. Motorway speed is 90kmh and all cars must be driven at 90kmh on these stretch. All lanes are of the same speed limit. This is because if any lanes have a lower speed limit it will cause traffic destruction. So in such a case if one were to drive slower than 90kmh is deemed to be hogging the lane. Same goes for those who drives more than 90kmh they will be slapped with a fine with points deductions.
So my fellow Malaysians….how is the law in Malaysia? We have slow, moderate and fast lanes on our highway. How would you like the law to be?
In my own opinion it is great to have such laws for both lane hoggers as well as speedsters…but having the law alone does not help. We need enforcements to make things happen. But sadly this is what we lack in….
Hence…abuse of the system will probably happens…
Just to add more….if enforcement and points demerits are here to stay…I am 100% sure drivers will behave …there will be less road deaths, driving will be pleasurable, no more double or triple parking, etc….
Are we for real or another syiok sendiri issue.
Even if the policeman is on the take, it is better to stop these road hoggers.
Rosd hogger means those who drive on the right lane when it it possible to move to the left. Those who are overtaking are not considered road hogs especially at speed close to the legal limit.
Road hogging is very subjective.
Ever travel during Raya time? You want to speed and go to right lane, then found got 1 car drive slow in front. Then you marah honk flash, maki the fellow road hogging. But do you realize in front of the car got car,car,car,car,car…. and the middle lane also car, car,car,car,car. And then you very hot. You steer to the left lane and then some more hot, big lorry crawling in front. You become steam. You scream and scream, why? why? why? Why the road is full of road hogger??????
Relaxlah brother, it is called JAM, NOT ROAD HOGGER.
DRIVE SLOW AND ARRIVE SAFE. YOUR LOVE ONES ARE WAITING FOR YOUR ARRIVAL….
The most chronic middle lane hoggers in Malaysia are the heavy vehicles; buses and lorries. When there’s a slight incline on the road you’ll see a big gap in front of them because they slow down. Cars have to overtake them or stick to the fast lane.
This is the norm here so much so nobody even mention it but only comment about the car models that hogs the most.
now, 1 000 quid is too small an amount for ’em.
generally, people in britain earned roughly 20 000 quid a year on average, depending on location.
make the punishment so unbearable they wont think 2x to drive in an “inconsiderate manner”.
The enforcement authorities can continue sleeping