In T&T, driving on the left side of the road is required by law. Overtaking a slower vehicle is legal on some roads (where the centre line is broken). If all the traffic is going slowly in one direction and you decide to drive on the wrong (right-hand) side and hope you can frantically squeeze back in when a vehicle approaches, this is not overtaking, it is simply driving on the wrong side.
This behaviour has caused many deaths and injuries. Some news reporters have developed a habit of calling it "overtaking a line of cars." No, it's just not a line of cars. That line consists of the law-abiding drivers who know that this isn't the US and the right side is the wrong side. Call a spade a spade. No more "overtaking a line" euphemisms. Wrong is wrong.
Ravi Singh
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