38Giving way when making a U-turn

38 Giving way when making a U-turn

[Rule 38 Substituted by S.R. 2022, No. 43, Applied:13 Jul 2022]

(1)  A driver making a U-turn must give way to all vehicles and pedestrians.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

Note 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.

(2)  Despite subrule (1), a driver does not have to give way to a driver entering the road from a road-related area or adjacent land.

Note Adjacent land is defined in the dictionary and road-related area is defined in rule 13.

(3)  In this rule –

road does not include a road-related area.

Note A road-related area includes any shoulder of a road – see rule 13.