Stopping at a children's crossing
80 Stopping at a children's crossing
A driver approaching a children's crossing must drive at a speed at which the driver can, if necessary, stop safely before the crossing.
Offence provision.
Note
Children's crossing is defined in subrule (6).
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 hand-held stop sign is displayed at the crossing; or
a pedestrian or bicycle rider is on or entering the crossing.
Offence provision.
Notes
1 Stop line is defined in the dictionary.
2 Rule 322(3) and (4) deal with the meaning of a traffic control device at a place.
If a driver stops at a children's crossing for a hand-held stop sign, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian or bicycle rider on or entering the crossing and the holder of the sign:
no longer displays the sign towards the driver; or
otherwise indicates that the driver may proceed.
Offence provision.
If a driver stops at a children's crossing for a pedestrian or bicycle rider, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian or bicycle rider on or entering the crossing.
Offence provision.
For this rule, 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.
Note
Dividing strip is defined in the dictionary.
(6) A children's crossing is an area of a road:
at a place with stop lines marked on the road, and:
children crossing flags; or
children's crossing signs and twin yellow lights; and
indicated by:
2 red and white posts erected on each side of the road; or
2 parallel continuous or broken lines on the road surface from one side of the road completely or partly across the road; and
extending across the road between the posts or lines.
Note
Twin yellow lights is defined in the dictionary.
Children crossing flag |
Children's crossing sign |
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Hand-held stop signs
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Notes for diagrams
1 There is another permitted version of the children's crossing sign and a number of other permitted versions of the hand-held stop signs – see the diagrams in Schedule 3.
2 A children's crossing sign may have a different number on the sign – see rule 316(4).
Examples
Example 1 Driver stopped at stop line for pedestrians on a children's crossing with children crossing flags |
Example 2 Driver stopped at stop line for pedestrians on a children's crossing with children's crossing signs and twin yellow lights |
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In each of these examples, the driver must stop at the stop line because there are pedestrians on the children's crossing.
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