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7.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Regulation, no vehicle shall stop or remain at rest on a carriageway.
(2) Where it is necessary for a vehicle which is being driven on a carriageway [F1or on any emergency refuge area which is adjacent to that carriageway or hard shoulder] to be stopped while it is on a motorway—
(a)by reason of a breakdown or mechanical defect or lack of fuel, oil or water, required for the vehicle; or
(b)by reason of any accident, illness or other emergency; or
(c)to permit any person carried in or on the vehicle to recover or move any object which has fallen onto a motorway; or
(d)to permit any person carried in or on the vehicle to give help which is required by any other person in any of the circumstances specified in the foregoing provisions of this paragraph,
the vehicle shall, as soon and in so far as is reasonably practicable, be driven or moved off the carriageway on to, and may stop and remain at rest on, any hard shoulder which is contiguous to that carriageway.
(3) —
(a)A vehicle which is at rest on a hard shoulder [F2or emergency refuge area] shall so far as is reasonably practicable be allowed to remain at rest on that hard shoulder [F2or emergency refuge area] in such a position only that no part of it or of the load carried thereby shall obstruct or be a cause of danger to vehicles using the carriageway.
(b)A vehicle shall not remain at rest on a hard shoulder [F2or emergency refuge area] for longer than is necessary in the circumstances or for the purposes specified in paragraph (2) of this Regulation.
(4) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Regulation shall preclude a vehicle from stopping or remaining at rest on a carriageway while it is prevented from proceeding along the carriageway by the presence of any other vehicle or any person or object.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 7(2) inserted (E.) (6.4.2015) by The Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/392), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)
F2Words in reg. 7(3) inserted (E.) (6.4.2015) by The Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/392), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(b)
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