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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2009 - REG 80

Stopping at a children’s crossing

80 Stopping at a children’s crossing

(1) A driver approaching a children’s crossing must drive at a speed at which the driver can, if necessary, stop safely before the crossing.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(2) A driver approaching or at a children’s crossing must stop as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the stop line at the crossing if—
(a) a hand-held stop sign is displayed at the crossing; or
(b) a pedestrian, or a rider of a bicycle or a personal mobility device, is on or entering the crossing.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(3) If a driver stops at a children’s crossing for a hand-held stop sign, the driver must not proceed until—
(a) there is no pedestrian, or rider of a bicycle or a personal mobility device, on or entering the crossing; and
(b) the holder of the sign—
(i) no longer displays the sign towards the driver; or
(ii) otherwise indicates that the driver may proceed.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(4) If a driver stops at a children’s crossing for a pedestrian or rider of a bicycle or a personal mobility device, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian, or rider of a bicycle or a personal mobility device, on or entering the crossing.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(5) For this section, if a children’s crossing extends across a road with a dividing strip, the part of the children’s crossing on each side of the dividing strip is taken to be a separate children’s crossing.
(6) A
"children’s crossing" is an area of a road—
(a) at a place with stop lines marked on the road, and—
(i) children crossing flags; or
(ii) children’s crossing signs and twin yellow lights; and
(b) indicated by—
(i) 2 red and white posts erected on each side of the road; or
(ii) 2 parallel continuous or broken lines on the road surface from 1 side of the road completely or partly across the road; and
(c) extending across the road between the posts or lines.
Examples—

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