CAN I U-TURN?

You have just finished having a drink after work on a Friday at the “Royal”, you are heading west out of town on your way home when you suddenly realise; bugger… I forgot to get the lamb from Oberon Farm Meats.

Can you do a U-turn?

On 1 November 2012 the New South Wales government took the opportunity to confirm just when and when not New South Wales motorists may conduct a U-turn.

The law now says this:

Drivers are NOT at any time permitted to make a U-turn

across the following:

1. A single continuous dividing line; or
2. A single continuous dividing line to the left of a broken line; or
3. Two parallel continuous dividing lines.

However there are TWO exceptions to the above, these are:

1. Drivers are permitted to cross a single dividing line to enter or leave a road; or
2. Drivers are also permitted to cross two continuous lines to enter or leave the road by the shortest route.

So the rule is, if a line is not broken, don’t cross it, unless you are entering or leaving the road.

Until next week, safe driving.