TRAFFIC DEFINITIONS

Question 1

What is the HTA definition of a “bicycle”?

Answer 1

“bicycle” includes a tricycle, a unicycle and a power-asisted bicycle but does not include a motor assisted bicycle;

Question 2

What is the HTA definition of “driver”?

Answer 2

“driver” means a person who drives a vehicle on a highway;

Question 3

What is the HTA definition of a “highway”?

Answer 3

“highway” includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof;

Question 4

What is the HTA definition of a “motor vehicle”?

Answer 4

“motor vehicle” includes an automobile, a motorcycle, a motor-assisted bicycle unless otherwise indicated in this Act, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not include a street car or other motor vehicle running only upon rails, a power-assisted bicycle, a motorized snow vehicle, a traction engine, a farm tractor, a self-propelled implement of husbandry or a road-building machine;

Question 5

What is the HTA defintion of “peace officer”?

Answer 5

“peace officer” includes a mayor, warden, reeve, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff’s officer, justice of the peace, jailer or keeper of a prison, and a police officer, bailiff, or other person employed for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace, or for the service or execution of civil process, or any officer appointed for enforcing or carrying out the privsions of this Act;

Question 6

What is the HTA definition of “roadway”?

Answer 6

“roadway” means the part of the highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder, and where a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” refers to any one roadway separately and not to all of the roadways collectively;

Question 7

What is the HTA definition of “vehicle”?

Answer 7

“vehicle” includes a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road building machine, bicycle and any vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, but does not include a motorized snow vehicle or a street car;

Question 9

What is the HTA definition of “meeting”?

Answer 9

Approaching a vehicle head-on from the opposite direction.

Question 10

What is the HTA definition of “approaching”?

Answer 10

Approaching from behind the vehicle or from the read of the vehicle.