Victorian Numbered Regulations

ROAD SAFETY ROAD RULES 2009 (SR NO 94 OF 2009) - REG 74

r. 74

    (1)     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—

        (a)     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

        (b)     any pedestrian on the road; and

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

        (d)     for a driver entering the road from a road related area—

              (i)     any pedestrian on the road related area; and

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

Penalty:     5 penalty units.

Notes

1     "Adjacent land", give way line , stop line and 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 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.

    (2)     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.