221Using hazard warning lights

221 Using hazard warning lights

(1)  The driver of a vehicle fitted with hazard warning lights must not use the hazard warning lights, or allow them to be used, unless –

(a) the vehicle is stopped and is obstructing, or is likely to obstruct, the path of other vehicles or pedestrians; or

(b) the vehicle is a slow-moving vehicle and is obstructing, or is likely to obstruct, the path of other vehicles or pedestrians; or

(c) the vehicle is stopped in an emergency stopping lane; or

(d) the driver stops the vehicle to sell a product (for example, ice creams) that may attract children onto the road; or

(e) the driver is driving in hazardous weather conditions (for example, fog or smoke); or

(f) the vehicle is a bus carrying children, and the driver stops the vehicle to drop off or pick up a child and is required or permitted to operate the hazard warning lights under another law of this jurisdiction; or

(g) the hazard warning lights are operating as part of an anti-theft device, or an alcohol interlock device, fitted to the vehicle.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 5 penalty units.

Note 1 Bus and hazard warning lights are defined in the dictionary, and emergency stopping lane is defined in rule 95.

Note 2 Driver includes a person in control of a vehicle – see the definition of drive in the dictionary.

Note 3 A vehicle does not obstruct another vehicle only because the vehicle is stopped in traffic or is travelling more slowly than other vehicles – see the definition of obstruction in the dictionary.

(2)  In this rule –

alcohol interlock device means a device in a vehicle that is designed to prevent the vehicle from being started or driven unless the device is supplied with a breath sample that contains either no alcohol, or less than a certain concentration of alcohol.