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Yeah, maybe we need a statistics thread, where we can get into an nicely ill-informed bayesian vs. frequentist argument.
But anyway, some people have died on the right hand side lorries and as far fewer people pass lorries on the right we have much less statistical evidence about how safe that is or isn't. So passing on the right instead of left may not be so great.
Not overtaking lorries at all doesn't work either, because they can come from behind and overtake you, and often there is little you can reasonably do about that.
Then there is the problem that if avoiding the left of lorries is the generally accepted wisdom it becomes more excusable for lorries to kill people on their left, and there will always be plenty of people on the left of lorries because the dynamics of the road often put them there and cycle lanes & ASLs encourage them to be there.