Hatched markings

Poppie68

Can someone please help clear something up for me?
Can you turn right crossing over (wide)hatched markings with solid or broken lines?
Can you overtake using the above?
Thanks

straighttalker

Rule 130
Areas of white diagonal stripes or chevrons painted on the road. These are to separate traffic lanes or to protect traffic turning right.

If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so.
If the area is marked with chevrons and bordered by solid white lines you MUST NOT enter it except in an emergency.

GingerBob_3

straighttalker wrote: »

Rule 130
Areas of white diagonal stripes or chevrons painted on the road. These are to separate traffic lanes or to protect traffic turning right.

If the area is bordered by a broken white line, you should not enter the area unless it is necessary and you can see that it is safe to do so.
If the area is marked with chevrons and bordered by solid white lines you MUST NOT enter it except in an emergency.

Yes, that was my understanding. These hatched areas are everywhere now. Far too much of the stuff. They are particularly annoying when they're used merely to narrow down a lane and funnel traffic as though it's going down a pipe.


Idiot road designers have been watching too many of those speeded up videos of traffic which shows pipeline-like movement of the vehicles. They really do think vehicles moving on a road are just like liquid going down a pipe, hence a large amount of the hatches.

Poppie68

So if a driver enters the area to make a right turn then that is ok?

Joe_Horner

Poppie68 wrote: »

So if a driver enters the area to make a right turn then that is ok?

Technically, you can turn across them like any other double white for a right turn but you can't use them like an extra lane in order to let people behind you get past while you're turning.

eta: Sensible road marking should normally have the hatchings missing opposite the turning to allow a waiting space but that doesn't always seem to happen!

straighttalker

I presume so. I wouldn't have a problem carrying out such a manoeuvre as long as the outer lines are broken and not solid.

Poppie68

Brilliant thanks guys.

Joe_Horner

The simple way to look at them is as if they were just the bordering lines that happen to be spaced wider than usual and the hatchings mean "pretend this tarmac isn't here".

So solid on your side of the hatchings is a solid line, which you can only cross in emergencies and a dotted on your side is a dotted line that you can cross with caution when needed but should normally drive to the left of.

The hatched area makes no difference to those rules but does make some extra space available when "exercising caution" as above.

stator

Are you talking about one of these?

You're only allowed to enter them when you can't exit if you are turning right and prevented from doing so by oncoming traffic.
All other cases you only enter when your exit is clear.

Or are you talking about a different type of marking?

RichardD1970

stator wrote: »

Are you talking about one of these?

You're only allowed to enter them when you can't exit if you are turning right and prevented from doing so by oncoming traffic.
All other cases you only enter when your exit is clear.

Or are you talking about a different type of marking?

I assumed the OP was more on about this type of thing,



rather than a Box Junction.

Car_54

Poppie68 wrote: »

So if a driver enters the area to make a right turn then that is ok?

Not if the area is bordered by a solid line.