Except in order to avoid an accident, or in compliance with a road traffic sign or with a direction given by a traffic officer, or for any cause beyond the control of the driver, no person shall stop a vehicle on the roadway of a public road—
| (a) |
alongside or opposite an excavation or obstruction on the public road if other traffic would be obstructed or endangered by such stopping; |
| (b) |
within any tunnel or subway or on any bridge or within six metres of any tunnel, subway or bridge; |
| (c) |
on, or within six metres from the beginning or end of, any part of such roadway where the normal width thereof has for any reason been constricted; |
| (d) |
in contravention of any road traffic sign; |
| (e) |
on the right-hand side of such roadway facing oncoming traffic; |
| (f) |
alongside or opposite any other vehicle on such roadway where such roadway is less than nine metres wide; |
| (g) |
within the railway reserve at a level crossing; |
| (h) |
within nine metres of his or her approaching side of a pedestrian crossing demarcated by appropriate road traffic signs; or |
| (i) |
in any other place where the stopping of a vehicle would or would be likely to constitute a danger or an obstruction to other traffic. |
Petroleum Products Act, 1977
