Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) A person must
not drive a vehicle on a traffic island or median strip except at a place
designed and constructed, or improved, for use by vehicular traffic.
Points: 1 Modified
penalty: 2 PU
(2) A person must not
drive a vehicle on or over a painted island unless —
(a) it
is to enter or leave the carriageway; or
(b) it
is to avoid an obstruction, in accordance with regulation 120(4); or
(c) it
is to enter a turning lane that begins immediately after the painted island;
or
(d) it
is to comply with regulation 124A(1), in accordance with
regulation 124A(5).
Points: 1 Modified
penalty: 2 PU
(3) Despite
subregulation (2), a driver must not drive on a painted island for more
than 50 m.
Points: 1 Modified
penalty: 2 PU
(4)
Subregulation (1) does not apply to a central traffic island in a
roundabout.
Note A driver must drive to the
left of the central traffic island in a roundabout except in certain
circumstances.
Example
In this example, it is unlawful for vehicle B to
have commenced driving on the painted island unless B intends to enter or
leave the carriageway, or enter a turning lane, immediately after the painted
island. In any case, B cannot drive on the painted island for more than 50 m.
(5)
Subregulation (2)(a) does not apply in the case of a painted
island —
(a) that
separates a carriageway that takes vehicles in one direction from another
carriageway that takes vehicles in the same direction at a place where the
carriageways merge; or
(b) that
separates one part of a carriageway from other parts of the carriageway to
create a slip lane.
Examples
Example 1
Example 2
In these examples, vehicle B is contravening
subregulation (2)(a) because of subregulation (5)(a).
[Regulation 119 amended: Gazette
23 Sep 2003 p. 4168; 22 Dec 2006 p. 5820;
13 Nov 2009 p. 4588‑9; 31 Dec 2013
p. 6565; 31 Oct 2017 p. 5462-3; SL 2020/253 r. 28.]