crazy overtaking

[dashy]

GWH in Medlow Bath eastbound. 10.7.2014.
I notice the car behind (AGL 19L)starts to illegally overtake me for some stupid reason (he can't see what is coming while behind me) and notice oncoming traffic so I put high beam on momentarily at 39sec to get the oncoming vehicle's attention, he slowed right down, if he was 15m further closer to us and had I not put my high beam on....

I was really hoping the oncoming car was a cop car but ....

After overtaking me this car wasn't going too fast and I stopped right behind it at a traffic light and recorded its number plates.

The previous day(about 24hrs prior to this footage) in this area a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and I was delayed 7min on my trip due to emergency vehicles etc.

 

[dashy]

Here is another illegal overtaking happened about 2or 3 weeks ago, I was driving 40 odd meters behind traffic which were going 90 in a 100 zone which led to this driver tailgating and illegally overtaking.

 

[niko]

First video 0 min 57 sec there is a triple-line. Is it common in Australia and what is difference between dual and triple road marking line ?
Never saw triple-line markings here.

 

[jokiin]

Never saw triple-line markings here.

never seen them before either

 

[dashy]

Not common at all, dual line is the common here too. The difference still the same...no overtaking, u turn etc
Possibly in this section the road is too wide etc.

 

[dashy]

Westbound trucks would be coming up this hill into a left hander and your usual fast truck/car would appear out of nowhere for the Eastbound traffic, possibly prior accidents etc.
Other truckers that use this route daily would probably know better than me.

 

[kamkar]

Trible lines should mean " overtake here and you will be thrown to the salties"

Nice bit of defensive driving dashy

 

[Tim]

Second driver with the trailer really got far.

 

[str8edgepunker]

I once had an incident very similar to this happen with my old car several years back. To set the scene, it was dark and late at night. Suddenly I had two people overtake me with a 15-20 second interval between them, crossing the double yellow line from behind me. The second one ended up being a cop stopping the first guy up the road a bit, presumably for overtaking me.

Nevertheless, even when there's a yellow dashed line indicating you can overtake slower traffic, I'm still a little hesitant even under the best of circumstances.