80Stopping at children’s crossing

80 Stopping at 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. (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 or bicycle rider is on or entering the crossing.

(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 or bicycle rider 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. (4) If a driver stops at a children’s crossing for a pedestrian or bicycle rider, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian or bicycle rider on or entering the crossing. (5) For this section, 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. (6) In this regulation: children’s crossing means 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 1 side of the road completely or partly across the (c) extending across the road between the posts or lines.

Driver stopped at stop line for pedestrians on a children’s crossing with children crossing flags In this example, the driver must stop at the stop line because there are pedestrians on the children’s crossing. Driver stopped at stop line for pedestrians on a children’s crossing with children’s crossing signs and twin yellow lights In this example, the driver must stop at the stop line because there are pedestrians on the children’s crossing.