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Rules of the Road

RSA handbook · 292 pages · 271 embedded images

Traffic signs and road markings

Page 81

Section 11 covers the main rules on motorway driving. It is an offence to disobey these rules.

Markings for merging and diverging traffic (hatched markings)

The diagrams show how the markings can be used for: merging traffic – for example, where two lanes of traffic become one, and diverging traffic – for example, where channelling traffic taking a left turn away from traffic going straight ahead.

Extracted from the RSA Rules of the Road, Revision 9, May 2026. Source PDF · reuse permission unconfirmed.