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What's a crawler lane for?

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To enable other traffic to overtake on the nearside

To enable large vehicles to park out of the way

To enable slow-moving traffic to move further over to the left on uphill gradients

To enable emergency vehicles to get quickly to the scene of an incident

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To enable slow-moving traffic to move further over to the left on uphill gradientsThis was the right answer

On a motorway where there's a long uphill gradient, there may be a crawler lane. This helps the traffic to flow by making an extra lane available on the left for slower, heavy vehicles.

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Rule 139Highway Code rule · The inspected crawler-lane sign introduces extra uphill space for slower traffic or to allow following vehicles to pass.

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