189Double parking

189 Double parking

(1) A driver must not stop on a road if to do so would put any part of the vehicle that the driver is driving between a vehicle that is parked on the road and the centre of the road.

One-way road and two-way road are defined in the dictionary.

| Example 1 | Example 2 | | Double parked on a two-way road without a dividing line | Double parked on a two-way road with a dividing line | | Example 1 for proposed rule 12.JPG | Example 2 for proposed rule 12.JPG | | Example 3 | Example 4 | | Double parked on the right side of a one-way road with no vehicles parked on the left side of the road | Double parked on the left side of a one-way road with other vehicles lawfully parked on the right side of the road | | Example 3 for proposed rule 12.JPG | Example 4 for proposed rule 12.JPG |

In the examples, the vehicle marked with an "X" is stopped in contravention of this rule.

(2) A driver does not contravene this rule by parking on the side of the road, or in a median strip parking area, in accordance with rule 210.

Vehicles parked in a parking area—not in contravention of this rule

In the example, the angle-parked vehicles are not stopped in contravention of this rule.