0 the part of the road nearest the vehicles going in the opposite direction, used especially by faster vehicles: --
She cruised by at 160 kilometres per hour on the outside/in the outside lane.
1 the part of a race track that is furthest from the centre --
The terminally ill are, as it were, on the outside lane of a three-lane motorway, moving towards the 28 weeks on the fast track.
The outside lane is the lane which is not the nearside lane.
Too often, coaches—which, after all, carry human beings—belt along the outside lane and are unable to stop in an emergency.
Motorists were going on the inside lane or the outside lane, weaving in and out of the traffic.
Drivers are not permitted under the law to hog the outside lane.
Many cars in the outside lane are doing well in excess of 100 mph, which is completely unacceptable.
Buses go tearing past in the outside lane although lorries are not allowed to do so.
Our coaches are allowed to travel at 70 mph and to use the outside lane on motorways.
