Paint is law. A line on the road carries the same weight as a metal sign on a pole, and crossing one is the same class of offence.
Why people underestimate markings
A sign is an object someone put there. A line looks like part of the road, so it reads as description rather than instruction. It is not.
Most learners treat markings as decoration until this section costs them the test. Signs, signals and markings are one section worth 30 of the 68 marks, and the markings are the part people revise last.
Where people lose the markTreating a line as guidance about where the lanes are rather than as a rule about what you may cross.
The rest of this lesson
- Solid, broken, and the two together
- Lines across the road
- Areas you may not enter
- The yellow edge line