Victoria · VicRoads Drive Test Criteria · chapter 7 · 19 min read

Critical & Immediate Termination Errors

6.4 Block Pedestrian Crosswalk

Item code: Block Ped

The applicant stops the vehicle on or partly on a children’s crossing, pedestrian crossing or marked foot crossing.

Exception The applicant is not penalised for stopping the vehicle on a crosswalk if it is necessary to do so to view approaching traffic before completing a turn at an intersection (see Figure 24). However:

If more than one vehicle is queuing to make the turn, this exception applies only to the first vehicle in the queue (see Figure 25).

Before stopping on the crosswalk, the applicant must take all reasonable care to ensure that no pedestrian has to take evasive action.