Road markings. Advisory guidance you are expected to follow.
Keep entrance clear of stationary vehicles, even if picking up or setting down children Warning of ‘Give Way’ just ahead Parking space reserved for vehicles named See Rule 243 See Rule 141 Box junction - See Rule 174 Do not block that part of the carriageway indicated Indication of traffic lanes
Rule text reproduced verbatim from the official Highway Code (Crown copyright) under the Open Government Licence v3.0, see the attribution at the foot of this page.
Stripped of the formal wording, this guidance comes down to one idea: keep entrance clear of stationary vehicles, even if picking up or setting down children Warning of ‘Give Way’ just ahead Parking space reserved for vehicles named See Rule 243 See Rule 141 Box juncti… It is advice rather than law, but examiners and the courts still treat it as the expected standard of safe driving.
It belongs to the road markings part of the Code, the habits a confident, considerate driver builds until they are automatic. The aim is not to memorise the sentence word for word, but to understand the hazard it protects you from, so you apply it without having to think when it counts.
If you are learning, treat this rule as one piece of a connected set rather than an isolated fact. The related rules below sit in the same section and reinforce each other, reading them together is how the road markings part of the Code starts to feel like common sense rather than a list to revise.
Because this is advisory rather than legal, no one will fine you for the rule alone, but ignoring it can still count against you in a careless-driving case, and it will cost you faults on the test. Either way, the safe move is to build the habit early, while a driving instructor can correct it, rather than relearning it under test pressure. That is exactly what the practice routes and coaching in the DriveRoutes app are designed to help with, turning the rules below into the way you naturally drive.
Signs, signals and markings are the shared language of the road. Reading them accurately and signalling clearly is how drivers coordinate without ever speaking, miss the message and the coordination breaks down.
In the road markings part of the Code, the faults most often written on the marking sheet tend to be the same handful. Knowing them in advance is the quickest way to drive them out of your own habits:
Imagine a sign appearing on the approach to a junction. Applying Highway Code, Road markings (part 3) means reading it early, acting on it in good time, lane, speed, signal, and cancelling any signal once the manoeuvre is complete. The examiner notes whether you respond to the information or miss it.
More from Road markings
Keep entrance clear of stationary vehicles, even if picking up or setting down children Warning of ‘Give Way’ just ahead Parking space reserved for vehicles named See Rule 243 See Rule 141 Box juncti… It is advisory guidance rather than law, but you are still expected to follow it and an examiner can mark a fault if you do not.
DriveRoutes is an independent study aid and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).