Lorries turning left
You learn to stay out of the blind spot of a lorry that turns left.
How to look in traffic
- Never ride up the inside of a lorry.
- Never wait beside it: that is its blind spot.
- Stay a few metres behind it.
The lorry is going to turn left. You are on your bike. Where do you wait?
- Look at the indicator: the lorry turns left.
- Look at the space beside it: that is its blind spot.
- Stay out of it.
- Wait a few metres behind the lorry.
More examples
Where can the driver not see you?
- Beside the lorry, on its left.
- The driver cannot see you there.
The lorry has an indicator on, to the left. You are beside it.
- Stop and stay back.
- The lorry will turn across your path.