0 the part of a main road that is used for passing other vehicles and is nearest the centre of the road
They will themselves have attempted to pass the second lorry in the overtaking lane when that lorry was going at about 70 mph.
In terms of economic performance, the country is definitely in the overtaking lane.
They are tending now to treat the middle lane as a normal progress lane rather than as an overtaking lane.
Driving in the centre lane or the overtaking lane, one finds a heavy vehicle dangerously close behind, snorting up one's exhaust.
However, he has power to ban traffic from using the overtaking lane on a motorway.
Drivers are advised that the third lane is for overtaking only and should be referred to as the overtaking lane and not by any other name.
After it was constructed, members of the local constabulary refused to police that stretch of carriageway as they felt that motorists would use it as an overtaking lane.
It is the overtaking lane.
