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#### 74 Giving way when entering a road from a road related area or adjacent land
74 Giving way when entering a road from a road related area or adjacent land
> > (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—
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> > > (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
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> > > (aa) a driver making a U-turn on the road, and
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> > > (b) any pedestrian on the road, and
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> > > (c) any vehicle or pedestrian on any road related area that the driver crosses to enter the road, and
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> > > (d) for a driver entering the road from a road related area—
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> > > > (i) any pedestrian on the road related area, and
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> > > > (ii) any other vehicle ahead of the driver’s vehicle or approaching from the left or right.
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> > Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
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> > Note 1.
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> > Adjacent land, give way line, stop line, traffic lights and U-turn are defined in the Dictionary, and road related area is defined in rule 13.
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> > Note 2.
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> > 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.
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> > Note 3.
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> > 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.
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> > Note 4.
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> > 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.
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> > (2) In this rule—
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> > road does not include a road related area.
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> > Note.
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> > A road related area includes any shoulder of a road—see rule 13.
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> Example.
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> | Driver entering a road from a road related area giving way to a pedestrian on the footpath and a vehicle on the road |
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> In this example, vehicle B must give way to the pedestrian on the footpath and to vehicle A.
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> **rule 74:** Am 2022 (692), Sch 1\[9\] \[10\].