Thanks andrew. On 13 Sep 2015 4:14 PM, "Andrew Fife" <loyal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Parked less than 5 meters from an intersection > > Taken from here: > > South African Learner Driver Manual - eNatis > <http://www.enatis.com/index.php/downloads/doc_download/333-1-rules-of-the-road-draft1/> > > 6.47 PARKING No person shall park a vehicle on the roadway of a public > road— > with a direction given by a traffic officer, > for any cause beyond the control of the driver/rider, > in any place where “Stopping” is not permitted. > in contravention of any road traffic sign; > on the same side as a fire hydrant within 1,5 metres on either side of > the hydrant, > in any place where the vehicle would obscure any road traffic sign; > in such manner as to encroach upon the sidewalk; or > in such manner as to obstruct any private or public vehicular entrance. > except for any reason beyond the control of the driver/rider. > on any portion of the roadway (excluding the shoulders) of a public road > outside an urban area or with any part of such vehicle within 1 metre of > the edge of such roadway. > > *No person shall park on the roadway of a public road within an urban > area*— > within 9 metres of the side from which he or she approaches a pedestrian > crossing. > * within 5 metres of any intersection.* > upon or over the actuating mechanism of a traffic signal. > with the outside of any left-hand wheel thereof more than 450 > millimetres within the roadway. > which is less than 5,5 metres wide. on a traffic island or in a > pedestrian mall or pedestrian lane. > > On 13 September 2015 at 15:51, Iain Watermeyer <iain.waterme...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I hope I am alone in this but suspect that I am not. We went away for >> the weekend and returned this afternoon to find 2 fines on my car. One for >> R500 for parking the wrong way and another for R1800 for obstructing >> something. The something is not clear on the fine so is a little >> confusing. What truly baffles me is that my car was the ONLY car on the >> street parked facing the correct way and clearly not obstructing anything! >> No yellow line, no drive way, nothing! This us the second time that our >> cars have been fined for parking correctly and now the humor is gone. We >> will write to the officials about the fines but feel that the ticketing >> people do not actually know the rules of the road! If they cant issue >> tickets correctly on a weekend how can they stop the tide of taxis and >> vehicles driving the wrong way down one way streets etc?? Is this something >> the ward counselor can take to the city ? >> >> Cheers. >> Iain >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room >> >> TEL: 021-447-1066 or 072-063-1653 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> EMERGENCIES: 10111 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ONW email: o...@obs.org.za >> WEB: www.obswatch.org.za >> FACEBOOK: facebook.com/obswatch >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Other Useful Obs Numbers: obs.org.za/obsdir >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send >> email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send >> email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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