Tearing your hair out in frustration because you received yet another parking ticket?

Do read on and clear your doubts now if you think that a nice dinner is more worthwhile than a parking fine.

Drivers who violated parking restrictions may receive a parking ticket and get demerit points. However, do you know that illegal parking may have more serious consequences than fines or demerit points?

Illegally parked vehicles might obstruct pedestrians or other motorists, causing them to get into serious or fatal accidents.

Parking illegally might save you a few minutes or a few dollars. The few minutes or dollars will not help when precious lives are lost.

• All expressways
• Flyovers, underpasses or the ramps leading to any flyover or underpass
• Slip roads or filter roads
• Roads with a centre divider which only allows for the passage of one vehicle
• Roads with speed limits 60km/h and above

Parking restriction lines are not drawn on these roads but parking is not allowed at all times. These roads are usually high-speed roads with high vehicle capacity.

Motorists should also be aware that the legal definition of parking is to bring a motor vehicle or a trailer to a stationary position and cause it to wait for any purpose other than that of immediately taking up or setting down persons, goods or luggage.

Parking restriction lines are found on roads with speed limits below 60km/h.
These are usually smaller roads within high vehicle or pedestrian traffic.

Last Updated: 5 December 2007