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Giving way when making a U-turn

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Schedule 3Australian Road Rules
Part 4Making turns
Division 4U-turns

38 Giving way when making a U-turn

(1) A driver making a U-turn must give way to all vehicles and pedestrians.

Offence provision.

Note

For this rule, give way means the driver must slow down and, if necessary, stop to avoid a collision – see the definition in the dictionary.

(2) Despite subrule (1), a driver does not have to give way to a driver entering the road from a road-related area or adjacent land.

Note

Adjacent land is defined in the dictionary and road-related area is defined in rule 13.

(3)

In this rule:

road does not include a road-related area.

Note

A road-related area includes any shoulder of a road – see rule 13.

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