Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2009 - REG 68

68 Stopping and giving way at a stop sign or stop line at other places

(1) This section applies to a driver approaching or at a place with a stop sign or stop line, unless the place is—

(a) an intersection; or

(b) a children’s crossing; or

(c) an area of a road that is not a children’s crossing only because it does not have—

(i) children crossing flags; or

(ii) children’s crossing signs and twin yellow lights; or

(d) a level crossing; or

(e) a place with twin red lights.

Examples—

• a stop sign at a break in a dividing strip dividing the part of the road used by the main body of moving vehicles from a service road

• a stop sign on an exit from a carpark where the exit joins the road

(2) The driver must stop as near as practicable to, but before reaching—

(a) the stop line; or

(b) if there is no stop line—the stop sign.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) The driver must give way to any vehicle or pedestrian at or near the stop line or stop sign.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

Examples—