Question:
Please clarify the meaning of a SOLID RED LINE and a BROKEN RED LINE painted along the shoulder of a road. The Durban Municipality first used a BROKEN RED LINE which was then changed to a SOLID RED LINE. I need your urgent response.
Answer:
A red line means No Stopping.
A solid red line means No Stopping at any time, day or night.
A broken red line means No Stopping during the hours shown on an accompanying road sign.
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Gavin Hoole
Cape Town
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This is a very important question we would like to discuss as part of the series on Car Insurance, road damage, potholes and the law. After an earlier blog post a visitor to the car insurance blog emailed a reply received from a road construction company. The wording is as follows:
“We refer to the above incident and advise that as our client, …Construction ….Pty, complied with the Contract Conditions with regard to the display of Disclaimer Boards and warning signage at the site of the incident, no liability or negligence can be attributed to them in this matter.
We suggest that you approach your own Insurers.”
We would however like to argue in this blog post that this answer is not the full truth – and that attention needs to be given to more aspects than the mere presence of disclaimer boards and warning signs.
Display of Disclaimer boards and Warning Signs
The display of disclaimer boards and warning signs can be regarded as standard practise at construction zones where road work is being performed. The displ
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With only one full day left of July to go, August is upon us. It is officially National Victim Road Month so many insurers and road safety websites are doing a lot to promote road safety at the moment. It is important to raise awareness about such issues because drivers are often forgotten with the focus being firmly placed on children, pedestrians and bike or motorbike riders. Of course, it should be on those groups but it should also be on the young lives that are snuffed out thanks to poor drivers.
More than 33% of all fatalities on the road are young drivers under the age of 25.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced that the overall number of traffic fatalities reported in 2009 has reached the lowest levels since 1954. This news may indicate that U.S. roads are becoming safer, as the 2009 figures mark a 22 percent decline from 2005 when the number of traffic fatalities peaked.
The final traffic fatality figures won’t be available until summer 2010, but according to early projections the fatality rate reached the lowest ever recorded rate in 2009.
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