Must Knows Flashcards
Definitions coach
Means a motor vehicle that is constructed principally to carry persons, and equipped to seat more than 8 adult persons, and used to convey passengers for hire or reward in the course of trade or business.
Definition driver
Includes be in control of the steering, movement or propulsion of a vehicle, and in relation to
a trailer, draw or tow the trailer, and ride a vehicle.
Definition vehicle
Means any description of vehicle on wheels (including light rail vehicle) but not including any other vehicle used on a railway or tramway, or any description of tracked vehicle, or any other description of vehicle prescribed by the statutory rules.
Definition GCM
Gross Combination Mass, greatest possible sum o the maximum loaded mass of the motor
vehicle and any vehicles it may lawfully tow.
Definition GVM
Grose Vehicle Mass, the maximum loaded mass of the vehicle.
Definition heavy vehicle
Means a motor vehicle or trailer that has a GVM or more than 4.5 tonnes.
Definition horse
Includes any animal used for the carriage of persons or goods.
Definition road
Means an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed for, or has as one of its main uses, the driving or riding of motor vehicles.
Definition road related area
Means and area that divides a road, or a footpath or nature strip adjacent to a road, or an
area that is open to the public and is designated for use by cyclists or animals, or and area that
is not a road and that is open to or used by the public for driving, riding or parking vehicles, or a shoulder of a road, or any other area that has been declared under section 18 to be an area to which specified provisions of this Act or the statutory rules apply.
Definition shoulder
The shoulder of a road includes any part of the road that is not designed to be used by motor vehicles in travelling along the road and includes – for a kerbed road – any part of the kerb, and for a sealed road – any unsealed part of the road, and any sealed part of the road outside the edge line on the road, but does not include a bicycle path, footpath or shared path.
What is a road related area
A road related area is any of the following – an area that divides a road, a footpath or nature strip adjacent to a road, an area that is not a road and that is open to the public and designed for use by cyclist or animals, an area that is not a road and is open to or used by the public for driving, riding or parking vehicles.
What is a vehicle
A vehicle includes – a motor vehicle, trailer and tram, and a bicycle, and an animal-drawn vehicle, and an animal that is being ridden or drawing a vehicle, and a combination, and a motorised wheelchair that can travel at over 10 kilometres per hour (on level ground), but does not include another kind of wheelchair, a train, or wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy.
What is a driver
A driver is the person who is driving a vehicle (except a motor bike, bicycle, animal or animal- drawn vehicle)
*Does not include a person pushing a motorised wheelchair
What is a rider
A rider is the person who is riding a motor bike, bicycle, animal or animal-drawn vehicle. *Does not include a passenger or person walking beside and pushing a bicycle
What is a pedestrian
A pedestrian includes a person driving a motorised wheelchair that cannot travel at over 10 kilometres per hour (on level ground), and a person in a non-motorised wheelchair, and a person pushing a motorised or non-motorised wheelchair, and a person in or on a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy.
What is a bicycle
Means a vehicle with 2 or more wheels that is built to be propelled by human power through a belt, chain or gears (whether or not it has an auxiliary motor), and includes a pedicab, penny-farthing and tricycle, and a power-assisted pedal cycle within the meaning of national road vehicle standards, as amended from time to time, determined under the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 of the Commonwealth, section12 other than one that had an internal combustion engine or engines
What is a built up area
In relation to a length of road, means an area in which either of the following is present for a distance of at least 500 metres or, if the length of road is shorter than 500 metres, for the whole road – buildings, not over 100 metres apart, on land next to the road, street lights not over 100 metres apart.
What is a bus
Means a motor vehicle built mainly to carry people that seats over 12 adults (including the driver