68Stopping and giving way at a stop sign or stop line at other places

68 Stopping and giving way at a stop sign or stop line at other places

(1) A driver approaching or at a place with a stop sign or stop line must stop and give way in accordance with this rule, unless the place is: (a) an intersection; or (b) a children’s crossing; or (c) an area of a road that is not a children’s crossing only because it does not have: (i) children crossing flags; or (ii) children’s crossing signs and twin yellow lights; or (d) a level crossing; or (e) a place with twin red lights.

Offence provision.

Note: Examples

Note: 1: A stop sign at a break in a dividing strip dividing the part of the road used by the main body of moving vehicles from a service road.

Note: 2: A stop sign on an exit from a carpark where the exit joins the road.

Note 1: Children’s crossing is defined in rule 80, intersection, stop line and twin red lights are defined in the dictionary, and level crossing is defined in rule 120.

Note 2: For this rule, give way means the driver must remain stationary until it is safe for the driver to proceed—see the definition in the dictionary.

Note 3: For the stopping and giving way rules applying to a driver at an intersection or level crossing with a stop sign or stop line, see rule 67 (intersections) and rule 121 (level crossings). Rule 80 deals with stopping at a stop line at a children’s crossing.

(2) The driver must stop as near as practicable to, but before reaching: (a) the stop line; or (b) if there is no stop line—the stop sign. (3) The driver must give way to any vehicle or pedestrian at or near the stop line or stop sign.

Note: Examples

Note: In each example, vehicle B must stop and give way to vehicle A.