Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ROAD SAFETY ROAD RULES 2017 - REG 230

    (1)     A pedestrian crossing a road—

        (a)     must cross by the shortest safe route; and

        (b)     must not stay on the road longer than necessary to cross the road safely.

Penalty:     2 penalty units.

    (2)     However, if the pedestrian is crossing the road at an intersection with traffic lights and a pedestrians may cross diagonally sign , the pedestrian may cross the road diagonally at the intersection.

Note

Intersection and traffic lights are defined in the dictionary.

    (3)     In this rule—

"road" does not include a road related area, but includes any shoulder of the road.

Note

Road related area is defined in rule 13 and shoulder is defined in rule 12.

Pedestrians may cross diagonally sign