Traffic Regulations, Schedule 3 - Australian Road Rules 1999

A driver entering a road from a road-related area, or adjacent land, without traffic lights or a stop sign, stop line, give way sign or give way line must give way to:

any vehicle travelling on the road or turning into the road (except a vehicle turning right into the road from a road-related area or adjacent land); and

a driver making a U-turn on the road; and

any pedestrian on the road; and

any vehicle or pedestrian on any road-related area that the driver crosses to enter the road; and

for a driver entering the road from a road-related area:

any pedestrian on the road-related area; and

any other vehicle ahead of the driver's vehicle or approaching from the left or right.

Offence provision.

Notes

1 Adjacent land,

give way line, stop line,

traffic lights and U-turn are defined in the

dictionary, and road-related area is defined in rule 13.

2 Adjacent land or a road-related area can include a driveway, service station or shopping centre – see the definitions of adjacent land and road-related area. Some shopping centres may include roads –

see the definition of road in rule 12.

3 Part 6 applies to the driver if there are traffic lights. Rule 68 applies to the driver if there is a stop sign or stop line, and rule 71 applies to the driver if there is a give way sign or give way line.

4 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.

5 The application of this rule is modified by regulation 78AAA of the Traffic

Regulations 1999.

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.

Example

Driver entering a road from a road-related area giving way

to a pedestrian on the footpath and a vehicle on the road

In this example, vehicle B must give way to the pedestrian on the footpath and to vehicle A.