Lachlan Morton conquered the Nullarbor Plains in a quick ride down a long straightaway across a remote arid region in southern Australia.

The EF Education Easy Post rider, who is attempting the fastest ride around Australia, left Norseman, Western Australia, on Thursday afternoon and entered the Eyre Highway.

However, Morton said in an Instagram update that he nearly ran over two of them.

“The first trucker actually tried to kill me,” Morton said in his 24th day Instagram update. Morton said in his 24th day Instagram update, “He kept driving directly at me until I realized he wasn't going to move. He didn't flinch and didn't move his truck an inch."

Sadly, the history of cyclist fatalities on this road shows that this is not an isolated incident; ABC has been working with the police since March of this year, when 62-year-old cyclist Chris The truck driver has been charged with manslaughter in the death of Barker. Rafe Justum, a 21-year-old cyclist cycling on the Narrabah Plains, was also struck and killed by a truck on the same road in 2021, and the driver was sentenced to four years in prison.

“Basically, I just get off the road when they come,” Morton said, referring to trucks, often multi-trailer and called road trains.

“There's no shoulder, and it's not worth the risk.”

This is not the only time Morton has decided to leave the pavement. He enjoyed the gravel roads on the last stretch of the road to Adelaide on Monday, off the main road and the planned route. By Monday evening local time, Morton had covered 12,122 km, or more than 85% of his total mileage, and by the end of Day 26 he had increased his average daily mileage to 472 km. [At his current pace, Morton will complete the race in approximately 30 days. This time is the same as Dave Alley's 14,251 km effort in 2011, listed as a current record by the Australian Road Records Association (in compliance with the minimum 14,200 km agreed upon in the 1990s), and Reed Anderton's 14 would shorten both efforts (37 days, 1 hour and 18 minutes) by 1,178 km.

Morton will have to travel 14,201 km from the start on September 5 before arriving in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, before heading to Melbourne and then Sydney.

Morton's journey can be followed on the live tracking page and donations can be made on Morton's Indigenous Literacy Fund fundraising page.