Road Rules 2019

A driver must not drive on or over a single continuous line, or 2 parallel continuous lines, along a side of or surrounding a painted island, except as permitted under this rule or rule 139(4) or 139A(4). Fine not exceeding 5 penalty units.Painted island is defined in the dictionary. Rule 139 deals with avoiding obstructions on a road.Example

Painted island surrounded by 2 parallel continuous lines. Vehicle B is contravening the rule.

A driver may drive on or over a single continuous line along the side of or surrounding a painted island for up to 50 metres – to enter or leave the road; or to enter a turning lane that begins immediately after the painted island; or to enter a part of the road of one kind from a part of the road of another kind (for example, moving to or from a service road or emergency stopping lane); or to park in angle parking on the opposite side of the road provided that the driver does not need to perform a U-turn to reach the parking area.Angle parking, parking area, service road, turning lane and U-turn are defined in the dictionary and emergency stopping lane is defined in rule 95. Rule 85 deals with the give way rules applying to a driver entering a turning lane from a painted island and rule 197 deals with stopping on painted islands. Subrule (3) excludes certain painted islands from the application of paragraph (a).

Subrule (2)(a) does not apply in the case of a painted island – that separates a road that takes vehicles in one direction from another road that takes vehicles in the same direction at a place where the roads merge; or that separates one part of a road from other parts of the road to create a slip lane.Slip laneis defined in the dictionary. Vehicle B is contravening the rule.

Vehicle B is contravening the rule.