138Keeping off a painted island

138 Keeping off a painted island

(1)  A driver must not drive on or over a single continuous line, or 2 parallel continuous lines, along a side of or surrounding a painted island, except as permitted under this rule or rule 139(4) or 139A(4).

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 5 penalty units.

Note 1

Painted island is defined in the dictionary.

Note 2

Rule 139 deals with avoiding obstructions on a road.
[Rule 138 Subrule (1) amended by S.R. 2021, No. 128, Applied:22 Dec 2021] Example

Painted island surrounded by 2 parallel continuous lines.
Vehicle B is contravening the rule.

(2)  A driver may drive on or over a single continuous line along the side of or surrounding a painted island for up to 50 metres –

(a) to enter or leave the road; or

(b) to enter a turning lane that begins immediately after the painted island; or

(c) to enter a part of the road of one kind from a part of the road of another kind (for example, moving to or from a service road or emergency stopping lane); or

(d) to park in angle parking on the opposite side of the road provided that the driver does not need to perform a U-turn to reach the parking area.

Note 1 Angle parking, parking area, service road, turning lane and U-turn are defined in the dictionary and emergency stopping lane is defined in rule 95.

Note 2 Rule 85 deals with the give way rules applying to a driver entering a turning lane from a painted island and rule 197 deals with stopping on painted islands.

Note 3 Subrule (3) excludes certain painted islands from the application of paragraph (a).

(3)  Subrule (2)(a) does not apply in the case of a painted island –

(a) that separates a road that takes vehicles in one direction from another road that takes vehicles in the same direction at a place where the roads merge; or