As I was driven inside the town centre at Box Hill in Melbourne one day during lunch hour, I heard a "double" honk from a police car at the back of us and the driver had to slow down and stop after taking the left turn and wait for the police.

Prior to that we had occupied the right turn lane at the ‘T' junction and was the the first car when the light turned red.

The police caught us red-handed making a left turn instead of a right.

When the policewoman came forward to the driver's side, she politely asked, "Do you know what you had just done?"

Of course, the driver answered he had no idea, and then she said, "Do you know you were in the wrong lane when you took the left turn?"

The driver understood her point and told her that he was not sure of the way to get out of town and when he realised that he was already driving inside the right turn lane, it was too late and extremely difficult to get into the left turn lane.

Also he was then near the "T" Junction and was the second car in the queue, seconds before the light turned red.

So, that was how he got caught standing on the wrong lane at the T-Junction.

She then asked for his driving licence and how long he was staying in Australia and then walked back to her male aide at the police car.

When she returned she told the driver that he has to take as many right turns until he found one left turn to get where he wanted to go.

She also told the driver that this time she will only give a warning and then handed back his driving licence.

Of course, she did take a look at all the passengers to see if they were all belted up and luckily we all had our belts on.

So, was no nonsense during the police check/interrogation as you might find in Malaysia.

For your information, in Australia, a child under six years of age needs to be seated in a baby/toddler car seat with a safety belt when taken out for a ride on the road and the maximum number of passengers should not exceed the numbers allowed for in that particular car.

Driving in Australia is really comfortable and safe as no motorist will drive above 100 kph in some stretches of motorways and also you don't see motorists overtaking from the left side of cars or tailgating one another.

There is always a safe breaking distance between cars.

There are also roads for driving at a top speed of 110kph.

You don't see cars hogging on the roads in Australia as each will use the correct (right) lane , within the speed limit.

Bikers there are required to use only the inner lane next to the road shoulder - unless they are overtaking then they can use the next motor lane.

Most importantly, there are no bikers weaving in and out of the traffic or in front of a moving car on the motorways, freeways and highways in Australia like in Malaysia.

In Australia there are signs that say, "Area with behavior monitoring" to get road users to abide and respect traffic laws. On top of this there are helicopters checking out motorists from above.

The bottom line, here is something for Malaysian ministers and parliamentarians to look at.

Why did they not see these good points when they went on learning trips to Australia. Surely they can use some of these methods back home.