80Stopping at a children’s crossing

80 Stopping at a children’s crossing

(1) A driver approaching a children’s crossing must drive at a speed at which the driver can, if necessary, stop safely before the crossing.

Offence provision.

Note: Children’s crossing is defined in subrule (6).

(2) A driver approaching or at a children’s crossing must stop as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the stop line at the crossing if: (a) a hand‑held stop sign is displayed at the crossing; or (b) a pedestrian is on or entering the crossing.

Offence provision.

Note 1: Stop line is defined in the dictionary.

Note 2: Rule 322(3) and (4) deal with the meaning of a traffic control device at a place.

(3) If a driver stops at a children’s crossing for a hand‑held stop sign, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian on or entering the crossing and the holder of the sign: (a) no longer displays the sign towards the driver; or (b) otherwise indicates that the driver may proceed.

Offence provision.

(4) If a driver stops at a children’s crossing for a pedestrian, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian on or entering the crossing.

Offence provision.

(5) For this rule, if a children’s crossing extends across a road with a dividing strip, the part of the children’s crossing on each side of the dividing strip is taken to be a separate children’s crossing.

Note: Dividing strip is defined in the dictionary.

(6) A children’s crossing is an area of a road: (a) at a place with stop lines marked on the road, and: (i) children crossing flags; or (ii) children’s crossing signs and twin yellow lights; and (b) indicated by: (i) 2 red and white posts erected on each side of the road; or (ii) 2 parallel continuous or broken lines on the road surface from one side of the road completely or partly across the road; and (c) extending across the road between the posts or lines.

Note: Twin yellow lights is defined in the dictionary.

Hand‑held stop signs

Note 1 for diagrams: There is another permitted version of the children’s crossing sign and a number of other permitted versions of the hand‑held stop signs—see the diagrams in Schedule 3.