(4) Nothing in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) shall apply so as to prevent a vehicle crossing or straddling the continuous line first mentioned in that sub—paragraph for the purpose or obtaining access to any other road joining the length of road along which the line is placed or to land or premises situated on or adjacent to the said length or road or it it is necessary to do so—
(a) in order to pass a stationary vehicle, or owing to circumstances outside the control or the driver or in order to avoid an accident, or
(b) for the purposes or complying with any direction of a police constable in uniform or a traffic warden.
(5) The warning conveyed by the road marking mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be that no vehicle while travelling next to a dotted line placed on the left, as viewed in the direction or travel or the vehicle, of a continuous line should cross or straddle the first mentioned line unless it is seen by the driver or the vehicle to be safe to do so.
24.—(1) Except as otherwise provided by this Regulation, the road markings shown in the diagrams in Schedule 2 shall be white.
(2) Road markings shown in diagrams 1015.1 to 1021, 1027.1 and 1043 to 1045 shall be yellow.
(3) In the road markings shown in the diagrams 1025.1 and 1025.3 the line shown therein as coloured yellow and having a width or 200 or 300 millimetres shall be yellow.
(4) The road markings shown in diagrams 1025 and 1025 2 and when displaying the word "Taxis" in diagram 1028.1 shall be yellow in the following but in no other circumstances, that is to say, where those markings are placed in a part of the carriageway which is subject to restrictions on waiting, loading and unloading for at least 8 hours during the period from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m, on at least 4 days, none of them being a Sunday, in any week by all vehicles, other than stage and express carriages in the case of the markings shown in diagrams 1025 or 1025.2 and other than hackney carriages in the case or the marking shown in diagram 1028.1
(5) Road markings shown in diagram 1055 consisting of marks arranged in transverse lines may be either white or silver or light grey in colour.
(6) In this Regulation, "hackney carriage" has the same meaning as in the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1971[1].
25.—(1) (a) The road markings shown in diagrams 1011 to 1014 shall be illuminated with reflecting material, and
(b) studs incorporating reflectors and spaced so as to form a single line of studs at intervals of not less than 3.6 nor more than 4.4 metres apart shall be fitted between the two lines constituting the marking shown in diagram 1013.1 unless that marking—
(i)is placed on any automatic railway level crossing, or
(ii)is placed on a length of the road falling within is distance of 90 metres measured from the transverse stop line provided in association with any such crossing and in conformity with diagram 1001, or
(iii)is so placed that the continuous lines shown in diagram 1013.1 are more than 175 millimetres apart and are separated by an area or cross-hatching so shown.
- ↑ 1971 c. 10
