"road"

means a road (other than a railroad) which is intended for the passage of vehicles, and includes a bridge or ford in the line of, and intended to be used in connection with, a road and any land which, in terms of any law, has been reserved, set aside, designated or defined as a road or a part of a road or as a place intended for the erection of any structure or for the making of any excavation or for the carrying out of any other work in connection with a road, or for the passage of vehicles belonging to any particular class or for the passage of pedestrians or animals alongside a road: Provided that if the width of a road, including any such land as aforesaid, has not been determined by or in terms of any law, that road shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to comprise the strip of land, 32 m wide, whose centre line coincides with the centre line of that part of the road over which vehicles ordinarily pass or which is intended for the passage of vehicles;

[Definition substituted by section 1(b) of Act No. 2 of 1979]