Traffic Regulations, Schedule 3 - Australian Road Rules 1999

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

any pedestrian on the road; and

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

if the driver is turning right from the road – any oncoming vehicle on the road that is going straight ahead or turning left; and

if the road the driver is leaving ends at a T-intersection opposite the road-related area or adjacent land and the driver is crossing the continuing road – any vehicle on the continuing road.

Offence provision.

Notes

1 Adjacent land,

traffic lights 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

see the definition of road in rule 12.

3 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.

4 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.

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.

Examples

In each example, vehicle B must give way to vehicle A. In

example 1, vehicle B must also give way to the pedestrian on the footpath.

Division 4 Keeping clear of and giving way to particular vehicles