shall proceed past such one of those lines as is nearest to the said level crossing in such a manner or at such a time as is likely to cause the driver or any railway vehicle to change its speed to avoid collision with the vehicle first above mentioned in this paragraph.
23.—(1) A road marking for conveying the requirements specified in the next succeeding paragraph and the warning specified in paragraph (5) shall be of the size and type shown in diagram 1013.1.
(2) The requirements conveyed by the road marking mentioned in the last preceding paragraph shall be that—
(a) subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) no vehicle shall stop on any length or road along which the marking has been placed at any point between the two ends of the marking; and
(b) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (4), every vehicle proceeding on any length of road along while the marking has been so placed that, as viewed in the direction of travel of the vehicle, a continuous line is on the left or a dotted line or of another continuous line, shall be so driven as to keep the first-mentioned continuous line on the right hand or off side of the vehicle.
(3) Nothing in sub-paragraph (a) of the last preceding paragraph shall apply—
(3) so as to prevent a vehicle stopping on any length of road so long as may be necessary—
(i)to enable a person to board or alight from the vehicle,
(ii)to enable goods to be loaded on to or to be unloaded from the vehicle,or
(iii)to enable the vehicle, if it cannot be used for such purpose without stopping on that length of road, to be used in connection with any building operation or demolition, the removal of any obstruction to traffic, the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of that length or road, or the laying, erection, alteration or repair in or near to that length of road or any sewer or or any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity, or or any telegraphic line as defined in the Telegraph Act, 1878[1],
so, however, that no vehicle shall be enabled by virtue of this sub-paragraph to stop for any of purposes at (i), (ii) or (iii) above on a part of that length of road, not being a lay-by or a road verge, if it is reasonably practicable to stop the vehicle for that purpose on a part of that length or road, being a lay-by or a road verge;
(b) to a vehicle used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;
(c) to a pedal bicycle not having a sidecar attached thereto, whether additional means or propulsion by mechanical power are attached to the bicycle or not;
(d) to a vehicle stopping in any case where the person in control of the vehicle is required by law to stop, or is obliged to do so in order to avoid an accident, or is prevented from proceeding by circumstances outside his control, or
(e) to anything done with the permission of a police constable in uniform or in accordance with the direction of a traffic warden.
- ↑ 1878 c. 76
