18/06/2020
WRONG PARKING
Before parking, check your mirror and look out for other road users Signal to show your intention to stop
Remember the Look-Signal-Move routine. Stop as close as you can to the edge of the road.
Before leaving your vehicle. switch off the engine and make sure your parking brake is on. Always lock your vehicle.
Do not expose valuables in your vehicles. Where safety or anti-theft devices are installed, use them. Remember to switch off your headlamps at night.
Where not to park
You must not park wherever you see NO PARKING sign. You must not park wherever your vehicle will obstruct the views of other road users or constitute danger to them, for instance at or near:
Road junction
Bends or corners
Brow or crest of a hill
Narrow bridge
Level crossing
Bus stop
Pedestrians crossing, or on either side of a crossing
School entrance or other entrances
Footpath, pavement or cycle path
The left hand side of the road at night (except in a one-way street)
Do not block view of traffic signs
You should not park your vehicle in such a manner as to stop traffic flow or cause any inconvenience to others.
Do not park:
On a narrow road
On flyovers, in tunnels or in underpasses (unless there are signs to say you may park there)
On expressways (except on the hard shoulder in an emergency)
On a single track road or in a passing place on such a road
Outside a private entrance for vehicles
Emergency Entrance Exit
Do not park your vehicle to block or within 15 meters of entrances through which emergency vehicles go in and out, that is, near the entrance of:
Hospitals
Roadside clinics
Road Safety Stations
Fire Stations
Fire hydrants
Police stations
Market
Avoid Obstruction
Do not park where you would make the road narrow:
Opposite traffic island
Alongside another parked vehicle
Opposite another vehicle if this would narrow the road to less than the width of two vehicles (double parking)
Near road works.
Your PEP Instructor,
Adekunle Awotipe